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": "user", "content": "My first computer was based on the Intel 80386 microprocessor. Are you familiar with it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "No I am not, was it used in one of the first PCs released by IBM back in 1981?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I believe it was and a lot of other companies tried to emulate those IBMs, which were created with that processor. How fast were those processors, any idea?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The Intel 80386 was introduced in 1085 and it was 32-bit so in comparison to today's standards probably really slow but a massive evolution back in the day!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interesting. So a floating point number would be limited by today's standards. I wonder how overcoming that 32-bit limitation, helped with scientific simulations and experiments."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It could correctly execute most code used in early PC's and all that was intended for 16-bit so I suppose that on it's own was already an experiment."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hmm, that's cool - it was sounds like it was backwards compatible. How long did the 80386 last as the dominant chip?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm not sure but Intel is clearly one of the main brands dominating the market until today, they supply all the big brands as Apple, HP and Dell."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Intel definitely has the major market share. Any idea who is their biggest competition?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think that would be AMD. Intel also manufactures other components like Motherboard Chipsets, Flash memory, graphic chips and other parts connected to computing."}]