Timeline: Microprocessors and Win Versions

Nov 15, 1971

Intel 4004 4bit

Jul 14, 1972

Intel 8008 8bit

Month day bogus

Jul 14, 1974

Intel 8080 8bit

Month day bogus

Aug 14, 1974

Motorola 6800

Jul 14, 1978

Motorola 6809 8bit

Jul 14, 1978

Intel 8086 16bit

Jul 14, 1979

Intel 8088 8bit

Jul 14, 1979

Motorola 68000 32bit

Aug 12, 1981

IBM PC with 8088 4.77Mhz 8bit and DOS

Feb 1, 1982

Intel 80286 16bit 6to25Mhz

Jul 14, 1982

65C02 8bit for Apple IIe

Jan 24, 1984

Apple MacIntosh with Motorola 68000 32bit

Oct 14, 1985

Intel 80386 32bit 33Mhz

Jul 15, 1989

Intel 80486 32bit pipeline Cache 16 to 100Mhz

Jul 15, 1992

Win 3.1

Mar 22, 1993

Intel Pentium (MMX) 64bit data 60 to 300Mhz

Jul 15, 1995

Win 95

Nov 15, 1995

Pentium Pro (686) 64bit data 150 to 200Mhz 265kb L2Cache

Jul 15, 1996

Win NT 4.0 (32bit)

May 7, 1997

Pentium II 64bit data 233Mhz to 450Mhz L2cache

May 28, 1998

AMD K6-2 266 to 550Mhz 64bit data (Only 64kb L1 cache)

Jul 15, 1998

Win98

Jun 23, 1999

Athlon Classic 64bit data 500Mhz to 2.33Ghz

Jul 15, 1999

Win98 SE

Feb 17, 2000

Win 2K

Nov 20, 2000

Pentium 4 64bit data 1.3 to 3.8Ghz Deeply Pipielined

Oct 25, 2001

Win XP

Jul 27, 2006

Intel Core 2 Duo 64bit data 1.06 to 3.2Ghz (2processors together)

Jan 30, 2007

Win Vista

Oct 22, 2009

Windows 7, Improved on Vista and able to run on smaller Netbooks

Improved on Vista and able to run on smaller Netbooks