> I recently saw advertised in a paper a 586 133mghz computer.  I'm
> familiar with 486 and the pentium series since.  Was there something in
> the interim?  What type boards did they use, is the designation for the
> CPU, the board, or both.  I'm considering buying it for the case and
> power supply but may leave the board and CPU if they aren't terribly
> slow.

        The 586 was (is) a 486 generation processor with the speed of lower
Pentiums, the 5x86/133 advertised the speed of between a P75 and P90. I used
one for a while and it was quite speedy, not the greatest but enough for
win95 if you had the patience. TTYL

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