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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

And not even hundreds of MHz till the 90s.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 50 minutes ago

I still remember swapping out my 486 SX 33Mhz with a 486 DX 100! I could finally play Duke Nukem 3D properly. Some areas got down to a frame every 2 seconds with the old processor.