The Microcomputer Company

The Microcomputer Company

"Introduced by Intel in 1971, the microprocessor launched the PC revolution. Seventeen years later, the "computer-on-a-chip" powers a wide range of microcomputers -- from PCs and workstations to minicomputers and supercomputers -- in addition to its presence in industrial military and telecomunications applications... Intel rollerd out the latest member of the Industry standard 8 family, the 32-bit 80386, in 1985. with 275,000 transistors, it [was] the company's most complex general-purpose microprocessor to date."