>>I had forgotten about this, but yes, I was using AMD I think in '90, maybe '91 and reading the Wikipedia article about FDIV it came to light in '94, by that time I am quite sure I was using AMD as I had closed my own computer store (I think I closed it in the end of '93) and was working for a publishing company (started in march '94), for which I bought 3 K5 when they came out (I just looked and they came out on '95)
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>>Fun times :(
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>Still mot as interesting as the architecture wars were over - 6502 vs. Z80 vs. 8088, 8086 vs. 6800, 80386 vs 680XX - when 80386 linear extended memory model in OS/2 and NT obliterated Motorola based machines, although Amiga, Mac and ST had distinct areas where they were years ahead of normal PCs

And too bad the DEC Alpha wasn't popular enough. I saw it run some version of NT in 1995, and it was way ahead of what x86 could offer at the time. Too bad it didn't survive.