Intel’s Pentium Pro was the successor to the very successful Pentium. It was the direct ancestor of the much more successful Pentium II. But you’ll find mixed opinions of the chip. In this blog post, I will cover how the Pentium Pro could be both a failure and a triumph simultaneously.

David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.










