Tech History Today
October 17, 1985: Intel releases 80386DX processor
Intel, on this day in 1985, released its 80386DX processor (commonly known as i386DX or just 386DX). The 275,000
The processor came as the successor to the company’s 80286. It played as the CPU to many workstations and high-end personal computers of the time. Its instruction set, programming model, and binary encodings are still the common denominator for all 32-bit x86 processors, which is termed as the i386-architecture, x86, or IA-32, depending on context.
In fall 2007, the i386 chip was finally discontinued. Although it had long been obsolete as a personal computer CPU, Intel and others had continued making the chip for embedded systems.
This post was published on October 17, 2016 3:14 pm