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Neon
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 Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:08 pm Post subject: AMD Personal Internet Communicator |
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| I bought this little computer, PIC (Personal Internet Communicator), which was introduced by AMD as the main component of their "50x15 initiative" to get 50% of world online by year 2015. They are supposed to contain AMD Geode CPU, but information is not clear about which exact model(s). |
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Neon
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| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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So I opened up the PIC, and found this! National Semiconductor Geode GX2, which runs at 366 MHz. Apparently, when AMD bought National's Geode business, they got extra chips as well as the technology. 
Not sure about the proper model number, though GX2-X28-CD seems like a good possibility. |
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Wizzard1
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| I've seen those before, very nice! |
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doccybrown
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:10 am Post subject: |
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Nice!!!
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Neon
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| Linux thinks this is a Cx486DLC processor. Does this seem correct? |
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donutty
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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Well it identified the Geode (vendor_ID)... so does it emulate a Cyrix??
But then the flags.... 486 didn't have MMX, 3Dnow etc.  |
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Neon
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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From wikipedia: | Quote: | | The original Geode processor core itself is derived from the Cyrix MediaGX platform, which was acquired in National's merger with Cyrix in 1997. |
Perhaps if cpuinfo sees "Geode", but can't determine the model name, it defaults to the Cx486? |
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Neon
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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Here we are in Windows.
Crystal CPUID thinks that National made Pentiums.
CPU-Z fails to detect L1 caches.
While all agree that this is Geode Family 5, Linux cpuinfo says Model 1, Stepping 0 - but the Windows programs say Model 5, Stepping 2
Results are not consistent between different cpuid programs. |
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Marcin
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Neon
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:32 am Post subject: |
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PIC comes with Windows CE 5.0, and is acceptable speed.
I wanted to put on Windows XP, but did not have a spare hard drive. So instead of a hard drive, I used a Compact Flash card with IDE adapter. The access time is slow, so Windows XP runs slowly (the install took like 2-1/2 hours - lol). Good news is no moving parts = silence.
Maybe if I find a spare hard drive, I can try again. |
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Marcin
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:49 am Post subject: |
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I'm curious because there is similar hardware on polish auction and I think about low power P2P, rapidshare downloader
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