Microprocessors and Win Versions

Timeline created by meontimetoast in Science and Technology

Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
11/15/1971	Intel 4004 4bit	Intel 4004 4bit
07/14/1972	Intel 8008 8bit	Month day bogus
07/14/1974	Intel 8080 8bit	Month day bogus
08/14/1974	Motorola 6800
07/14/1978	Motorola 6809 8bit
07/14/1978	Intel 8086 16bit
07/14/1979	Intel 8088 8bit
07/14/1979	Motorola 68000 32bit
08/12/1981	IBM PC with 8088 4.77Mhz 8bit and DOS
02/01/1982	Intel 80286 16bit 6to25Mhz
07/14/1982	65C02 8bit for Apple IIe
01/24/1984	Apple MacIntosh with Motorola 68000 32bit
10/14/1985	Intel 80386 32bit 33Mhz
07/15/1989	Intel 80486 32bit pipeline Cache 16 to 100Mhz
07/15/1992	Win 3.1
03/22/1993	Intel Pentium (MMX) 64bit data 60 to 300Mhz
07/15/1995	Win 95
11/15/1995	Pentium Pro (686) 64bit data 150 to 200Mhz 265kb L2Cache
07/15/1996	Win NT 4.0 (32bit)
05/07/1997	Pentium II 64bit data 233Mhz to 450Mhz L2cache
05/28/1998	AMD K6-2 266 to 550Mhz 64bit data (Only 64kb L1 cache)
07/15/1998	Win98
06/23/1999	Athlon Classic 64bit data 500Mhz to 2.33Ghz
07/15/1999	Win98 SE
02/17/2000	Win 2K
11/20/2000	Pentium 4 64bit data 1.3 to 3.8Ghz Deeply Pipielined
10/25/2001	Win XP
07/27/2006	Intel Core 2 Duo 64bit data 1.06 to 3.2Ghz (2processors together)
01/30/2007	Win Vista
10/22/2009	Windows 7, Improved on Vista and able to run on smaller Netbooks	Improved on Vista and able to run on smaller Netbooks