No. Nobody wanted Pentiums from the mid nineties by the end of the decade. Clock frequencies were racing to jump over the 1 GHz barrier.
We produced a lot of electronics trash in the 90s. You bought a computer and two years later you had to replace it. Upgrade paths were also severely limited due to new sockets and chipsets all the time.
It was stressful if you wanted to stay cutting edge with your gaming PC I can tell you.
Yes, and i586 to i686 was a big generational thing. As was 386 and 486 jumps before. The old generations fell to undesirable category pretty fast. Not so much with Pii to Piii and the few following years.
Those were often easy to get and repurpose into servers and gateways for things.
