Intel 80386DX released October 17,1985

1985- Intel released the 80386 DX processor. The 275,000 transistor chip was a big jump from the 20 MHz 286. It contained the ability to address up to 4 GB of memory and had a bigger instruction set.  The chip would be released, but most people wouldn’t see the processor until Spring of 1986Interesting enough – the 386 chip was finally discontinued in the Fall of 2007. The chip was used after personal computer days to power many embedded systems.

This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for October 17

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• Texas Instruments “afternoon with TI management”
  
• IMDB is formed (sort of)
  
• Apple released Mac OS 8.5