Part 2: Mini-Mainframe at Home: Installing an OS

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:45 pm    Post subject: Part 2: Mini-Mainframe at Home: Installing an OS Reply with quote

Part 2 of the Mini-main frame series has been posted

The fun of getting Windows running (plenty of BSoDs and STOP errors of course)

http://www.cpushack.com/2019/01/14/part-2-mini-mainframe-at-home-the-story-of-a-6-cpu-server-from-1997/

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent articles so far Smile
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thanks =) I even somehow decided to use in this server the two SSDs that you helped me to buy in UK, but left this idea for later Wink, maybe in the 4th part they will be useful to me. Once again Thanks.

A lot of people were involved in this project and the main thing is that the first stage was successfully completed Smile The results of the work you are now reading. I think soon John will complete the third part and we will be preparing for the fourth Rolling Eyes

I’ll probably write what I want to do more in this project. At the cost of incredible effort, Windows Server 2003 OS was installed on six Pentium Pros with 1 MB L2 cache, but I would also like to learn the power of six Pentium II Overdrives 333 Mhz. We can say three, we need three more processors. Their cost on Ebay is cosmic and I cannot afford them. If someone can help with their search or can give at the time, then something in the end can work. I would like to install the Server 2007 Server on them. Laughing Another part of the crazy idea is to find six socket8-socket370 adapters and run six Celerons with 533 MHz on the Mendocino core, but this is from the category of fiction, I had one such adapter, but I had to to sell Sad, so that this project could be realized.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

max1024 wrote:
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but I would also like to learn the power of six Pentium II Overdrives 333 Mhz. We can say three, we need three more processors. Their cost on Ebay is cosmic and I cannot afford them. If someone can help with their search or can give at the time, then something in the end can work.

I'll bet some CPU-World users would let you use theirs for a period of time, for the project's sake?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a big fan of everything multiprocessored. LOVING these articles!
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

H3nrik V! wrote:

I'll bet some CPU-World users would let you use theirs for a period of time, for the project's sake?


Ha-Ha. You have already lost this dispute. In my experiment, we already have five Pentium Pro, which were given to me at the time of the experiment, and I am preparing to send them back. In my past projects there are also a lot of processors from collectors that I did not have. It's one thing when they just lie in a box, another thing when there is real benefit and the final result, because many people are interested in how they work? What kind of performance is shown? Many processor collectors, their performance often doesn’t matter and I don’t see any particular problems in order not to give them a second chance, for the benefit of everyone interested in this topic. It is good that there are still people who can lend them for a while Smile
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