i enjoy playing retro video games on my 386.
[{"role": "system", "content": "The Intel 80386, also known as i386 or just 386, is a 32-bit microprocessor introduced in 1985. The first versions had 275,000 transistors and were the CPU of many workstations and high-end personal computers of the time. As the original implementation of the 32-bit extension of the 80286 architecture, the 80386 instruction set, programming model, and binary encodings are still the common denominator for all 32-bit x86 processors, which is termed the \"i386-architecture\", \"x86\", or \"IA-32\", depending on context. The 32-bit 80386 can correctly execute most code intended for the earlier 16-bit processors such as 8086 and 80286 that were ubiquitous in early PCs. (Following the same tradition, modern 64-bit x86 processors are able to run most programs written for older x86 CPUs, all the way back to the original 16-bit 8086 of 1978.) Over the years, successively newer implementations of the same architecture have become several hundreds of times faster than the original 80386 (and thousands of times faster than the 8086). A 33\u00a0MHz 80386 was reportedly measured to operate at about 11.4 MIPS. The 80386 was introduced in October 1985, while manufacturing of the chips in significant quantities commenced in June 1986.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I remember my PC with an Intel 80386 processor. It ran Windows 2.0. Did you have one?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I bought my first computer in 1997 or so. All I remember about it was that is was a Compaq? I think HP later bought them out."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The first version of the 80386 had 275,000 transistors, which was considered high end at the time. Your Compaq was much more powerful than the 80386!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm not very technical. What exactly are transistors? lol"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Transistors are semiconductor devices used to switch electronic signals. They are the \"brain\" of the computer."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Cool! It sounds like you are a tech expert."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Before transistors, vacuum tubes were used. These made computers very large, even the size of rooms!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I remember visiting my Dad at work and their computers were the size of cars! lol"}]