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I586

I586

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Pentium (original).

The Pentium (also referred to as the i586 or P5 Pentium) is a microprocessor introduced by Intel on March 22, 1993. It is the first CPU using the Pentium brand. Considered the fifth generation in the x86 (8086) compatible line of processors, succeeding the i486 as the series flagship under the Intel brand, its implementation and microarchitecture was internally called P5.