CPU Museum wanders down memory lane

Not everything is listed on the Web site - we remember taking a shot of a Rise CPU that never made it to market a few years ago, but this otherwise is a useful contribution and well worth a gander.

Here, for example, you can see the "Green CPU" from UMC, a 486-33 33MHz processor that never quite captured the market, as well as "IBM Microelectronics" processors which used the infamous PR rating, just like Cyrix.

Odd that, because although they were made by IBM Micro for Cyrix and the deal was that Big Blue got half the production, the chips were sold for more than the Richardson TX processors. And when there was a problem, sold for far less than the Cyrix chips.

IBM Micro representatives used to attempt to persuade us that the reason their chips was expensive was because the packaging was much better than the Cyrix packaging. Cough.

Have a look at CPU Museum DE.

And if you're in memory lane mood, check out Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present, recently updated. µ