t was three times as powerful as the current chips. This 286 chip was first used in IBM's very memorable machine, the PC-AT. In 1985, the Intel386 processor came off the showroom floor. With 275,000 transistors, the chip was a huge jump from the competition. The Deskpro by Compaq was the first PC that used the 386 chip. The Intel 486 processor was released in 1989. This new chip had all the fixins': 1.2 million transistors and was the record-breaking first chip to have the first built-in math coprocessor. In 1993, Intel introduced a processor with five times the speed of the 486, the Pentium processor. The Pentium chip uses 3.1 million transistors. In 1997 Intel started introduced its MMX technology, a breed of chip build for high multimedia performance. After MMX took hold, it is now standard on all Pentium processors. In 1998 the Pentium II chip was released with incredible speed and mind-blowing processing power. ."(/cn71898a.htm)The Intel Corporation is an amazing company that will be around for a very long time. As of 1997 the company was worth $26,273,000,000. The CEO of Intel is Craig R. Barrett. Intel, as of 1997, had 63,700 employees on its roster. In my personal opinion, I feel that Intel is a very reliable chip manufacturer, I buy only Intel brand processors because of their reliability, and I would proudly join their workforce if at all possible.Stock Exchange: "market for the sale and purchase of securities of corporations and municipalities, and, in some cases, of certificates representing commodities of trade."(Funk and Wagnalls p359) The first stock exchange to be built was in Antwerp, Belgium in 1531. In 1773 the brokers of London formed an exchange in England. In New York City, brokers met to exchange stocks under a button tree until they organized the New York Stock Exchange. (Sobel, p904) The NYSE only let in stocks that it deemed "good enough". Those that didn't pass the test where traded outside on ...
