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386 processor

386 processor (or 80386 processor) was introduced in 1985 by Intel, which was the first processor to use 32 bit addressing, allowing it to utilise up to 4 Gigabytes of memory. The 386 processor was manufactured in many different versions and ran at speeds from 16 Mhz through to 40 Mhz.

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