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max1024
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| CPUShack wrote: |
haha Since max1024 resides in Belarus his native tongue/keyboard is Belarusian |
Oh yes, in my info Location marked as Belarus  may be think about to change this attribute closer to Avicc ha-ha |
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lukas12p
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| They didn't use Cyrix 5x86 special features in benchmarks, because there is no program to run them in WinXP? |
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OrBit
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:05 pm Post subject: Re: The 486 CPU Era – The Birth of Overclocking. – Part |
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Hey John
In my opinion the Intel SL CPU would be B80486SL (875000 Transistors).
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Williac
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:49 am Post subject: |
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I'm surprised no-one brought up the "turbo" button that was present on most machines up to the early Pentiums.
While more underclocking than overclocking, it was a similar principle that was supported by the hardware, and even in some BIOS.
And PCI wasn't necessarily the first 32-bit slot, nor was it constrained to the 486. Most of us had VLB, which appeared on 386 mobos, and a few others had to suffer the horrors of MCA, courtesy of IBM's last ditch efforts to keep PCs proprietary.
And then watching your PCI cards choke because you had some lowly 8-bit ISA modem driving in the slow lane of the bus.
Reading this brought back a lot of fun memories. No more boot disks/conventional memory battles/EMS or XMS, which IRQ was that again, etc.
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Glory_Cloud
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| Williac wrote: | | and a few others had to suffer the horrors of MCA, courtesy of IBM's last ditch efforts to keep PCs proprietary. |
Micro Channel Architecture
I made a living on the PS/2's for a while because of MCA and
it's ADF files and Ref Disks. It was a booger to add options, test
and repair these computers but it you were dealing with corporate
America, that's the game you had to play. Learn it or get left
behind. So I learned it and made some good $$$. Sold 1,000's
and 1,000's of them. and even more 3270 / 5250 / Enet / token ring
adapters to go in them.
Good old days.  |
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