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Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry

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180 points leotravis10 | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 18:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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kens ◴[31 Mar 25 18:51 UTC] No.43538380[source]▶
Author here for your Pentium questions :-)
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CalRobert ◴[31 Mar 25 20:01 UTC] No.43539219[source]▶
Why wasn’t the Pentium’s successor the Sexium?
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1. nxobject ◴[31 Mar 25 20:26 UTC] No.43539542[source]▶
I imagine the same reason why we had the Macintosh II and IIx, but not the SE and SEx (instead SE/30)...