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OCR: THE COMPUTER MARKETPLACE Co mpa ring Pentiums Which Pentium is right for me? The x86 chip family descended from Intel's 8086 micro- proces sor The 80286, 80386 and 80486 models that followed were usually referred to Aq the last three 286 386 and 486. FOr the next generation, however Intel broke with tradition Initially. the 80586 chip was dubbed the P5 was officially christened the Pentium. Intel introduced the Pentiurm processor in 1993 This processor packed an impressive 3.3 milion transistors on .36- i-inch square Using dual-pipeline archi tecture the chip could execute two instructions at a time 1995 Intel produced the P6 generation t0 processors called the Pentium Pro With five execution pipelines and 5.5 million transistors the Pentium Pro was optimized for the 32-bit instruction set ...