The 10 Most Influential CPUs of All Time

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Anyone got a TLDR?

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I know, I should support them, but I'm not gonna monkey around with my stuff to do that.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
Just an interesting article.

I tend to find this kind of stuff a fun read. I may not fully agree with it but you gotta love seeing the good old 2600K in there. As a former Atari 80s era computer owner I would wholly include the 6502 and whatever was in the Commodore 64 (I used to know but have since forgotten) along with that of the Apple IIe and TI99 4A.

https://www.howtogeek.com/the-10-most-influential-cpus-of-all-time/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
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The C64 had a MOS6510 which is a modified 6502.
 
Just scanned through the top ten. Some honorable mentions about processors that pioneered new tech from Citrix would have been nice.

Motorola got a mention but nothing on Nvidia or SUN?

This was a very consumer oriented posting with no deeper dive into foundational computer systems at all. No mention of AS400 or RS6000 SOC's at all.

It's almost like most advanced systems of the day were not even brought up to mention. Our compute experience has changed a lot but so much of it is trickle down from the modern big systems of the day and to just leave them out completely is kind of a headscratcher.

It's like someone asked a gamer to make this list and they never once thought of where and how the tech came to the desktop.
 
Grimlakin said:
Just scanned through the top ten. Some honorable mentions about processors that pioneered new tech from Citrix would have been nice.

Motorola got a mention but nothing on Nvidia or SUN?

This was a very consumer oriented posting with no deeper dive into foundational computer systems at all. No mention of AS400 or RS6000 SOC's at all.

It's almost like most advanced systems of the day were not even brought up to mention. Our compute experience has changed a lot but so much of it is trickle down from the modern big systems of the day and to just leave them out completely is kind of a headscratcher.

It's like someone asked a gamer to make this list and they never once thought of where and how the tech came to the desktop.
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Agreed on all. I think it's a great topic and usually enjoy it when it comes up but I too was shocked at the directions they went with. Clickbait stuff but still nice to reminisce about.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
How strange, I've got some blockers and got through. That's a bummer.
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Yeah I dunno. I even tried turning off the ad blocker and got this:

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It was a different message, so progress? It wouldn't load until I disabled pihole... and by that point I wasn't all that interested in the article any more, it was just an exercise to see what was causing the message.

After at least glancing through the article since I went to all this trouble to load it - yeah... I agree with most here. Horrible article done by someone with absolutely no historical knowledge of computing. I'm sad I went to any trouble beyond clicking a link to read it.
 
Brian_B said:
Yeah I dunno. I even tried turning off the ad blocker and got this:

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It was a different message, so progress? It wouldn't load until I disabled pihole... and by that point I wasn't all that interested in the article any more, it was just an exercise to see what was causing the message.

After at least glancing through the article since I went to all this trouble to load it - yeah... I agree with most here. Horrible article done by someone with absolutely no historical knowledge of computing. I'm sad I went to any trouble beyond clicking a link to read it.
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I totally get it. There's a couple of European gaming/tech sites we sometimes reference for stories that have given me grief over the years with similar messages regardless of Chrome/FF or whatever else I had in the background and even after jumping through hoops I still had problems. Recently most have been playing nicely but I know what you mean.
 
I think it's odd that they have the Pentium listed as 1993. I know for a fact (( And have the keychain to prove it)) that it was introduced in at LEAST 1992... had the floating point problem past the 6th decimal digit for calculations so they had to recall it. Made a lot of keychains... and yes I still have mine busted up coating on the 'cpu' at this point and all from over 30 years of pocket life with other keys. I was lucky to have owned a 486sx 20, that I upgraded to DX266, then a pentium 90, followed by an Celeron 300 cand bar processor if I remember correctly, then I think the Athalon 3200+, then a Q6600 Pentium, (FOUR CORE BABY) then a few others after that... too many to recall.
 
Part of me DOES want a M series mac book... just don't have a solid use case... my wife has the ipad AIR with a M series cpu in it... yet she uses her phone more. lol.
 
Let's see that keychain. Even the Wiki says the Pentium was launched in March of 1993.
 
Clearly my nerd gray hair status... (though more on my face than my head... head hair vacating rapidly...) is strong. This is what happens when you carry a key chain for... 33 years... Pardon me I must go wallow in Gen X morose..
 
That's funny. I've mostly been behind current CPU gens a lot coz of financial reasons. I had a 386DX-40 as a kid in 1993 and even being old at that point, it was still expensive. Went through 486DX2-66, Pentium 133 (or was it 120) non-MMX, Pentium II 350 MHz, Coppermine Celeron 700 (my first ever overclock @ 1050 MHz, only for brief periods when I needed the performance. Doom 3 was played with it using a Geforce 3 Ti 200), Sempron 2 GHz @ 3 GHz (left it 24/7 overclocked with my family and a year later, it became all wonky probably due to high FSB causing degradation), company laptop using something like a Core Duo maybe, Core 2 Quad Q9300, i3-2100 (later upgraded to 3770), i7-5775c around late 2019, 12700K in 2022 I think and 245KF and 9950X3D both within 6 months.
 
Grimlakin said:
Part of me DOES want a M series mac book... just don't have a solid use case...
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The only solid use case I can think of for a cheap M1 Macbook is Excel. Performance is pretty decent compared to a noisy desktop especially in heavy multicore calculations and amazing for being fanless. I mostly use my MBA for watching movies.
 
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