[scruffyherder]

Nexgen was great, the lack of a FPU at that moment in time however was fatal at launch.

Quake was just starting to ignite the world and pentium performance at 486 prices would have done more, but no fpu... it ran NT fine enough although my memory wants to say Microsoft detected it as a 386 so that would have cut NT 4 out of the picture.

I thought knowledge of them was more common but I guess not