I remember my PC with an Intel 80386 processor. It ran Windows 2.0. Did you have one?
I bought my first computer in 1997 or so. All I remember about it was that is was a Compaq? I think HP later bought them out.
The first version of the 80386 had 275,000 transistors, which was considered high end at the time. Your Compaq was much more powerful than the 80386!
I'm not very technical. What exactly are transistors? lol
Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power. It is composed of semiconductor material usually with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor's terminals controls the current through another pair of terminals. Because the controlled (output) power can be higher than the controlling (input) power, a transistor can amplify a signal. Today, some transistors are packaged individually, but many more are found embedded in
long. The hardware used the Non Maskable Interrupt (NMI) to take control back to the emulation code. More detail may be seen in the patent referenced in the External Links below.
Later Merge was enhanced to make use of the virtual 8086 mode provided by the Intel 80386 processor; that version was offered with Microport SVR3 starting in 1987, and subsequently with SCO Unix. There was also a Merge/286 version that ran on an unmodified PC/AT (without any special I/O trapping hardware); it ran