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 back in the 80s I had an Intel 80386, and that little 32-bit processor was considered quite the high end machine."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow! They were around that long ago? Tell me more, please. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh yeah, I used to call it my Compy 386, you know because of the last three numbers being the same. Intel has been making good products for a while."}, {"role": "user", "content": "How long has Intel been making computer products?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The multinational corporation and technology company Intel has been around since 1968. 50 years old this year!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "They are as old as my husband. lol. What other products do they make besides processors for computers?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Other than processors, Intel makes flash memory, graphics cards, motherboard components which we call chipsets, and a whole host of other products."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I never knew that. I am guessing they make a boat load of money. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "$17 billion in revenue during the second quarter of this year, so yes, a boatload is certainly one way of putting it, lol."}, {"role": "user", "content": "LOL! Man, that's a lot of dough. Anything else you can share about the company?"}]