David Hayward recalls an awesome processor
Moving up from an Intel 386 SX-25 to the utterly amazing Intel DX2-66 was one of the most powerful leaps in computing I've ever experienced; save for, perhaps, a Spectrum 48k to Atari ST. The DX range of processors were a quantum leap forward in desktop computing. The 386 DX had doubled the transistor count from the old 286, quadrupled the MIPS performance across the board and brought true 32-bit processing to the desktop masses. The memory address range was also vastly improved; up to 4GB of RAM or 64TB of virtual memory in protected mode - numbers considered almost too high to comprehend back in the 90s. The 486 DX was the first processor to feature a built-in Math Co-Processor and the first processor to finally break the one million transistor barrier.
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