Re: Pentium processor and the 1993/95 ...

Posted on 2015-09-10, 18:26

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I don't understand why K6-2 were release and lasted so long without an internal cache. Considering that the Pentium 2 and Celeron clearly teached how much cache was important, why K6-3 could not be released as next K6 after the 266Mhz version?

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Re: Usual RAM sizes back in the 386/486/Pentium years

Posted on 2015-09-10, 12:43

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I remember the first computer I bought myself was a Pentium 90 with 8MB. This was summer -95. -97 i got a P166 that had 16MB and I took the 8MB from the P90 so I had 24MB. After that I had many different systems and upgraded alot so it's kind of fussy. But I had a K6-2 450 with 96MB I think, after …

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Re: Usual RAM sizes back in the 386/486/Pentium years

Posted on 2015-09-10, 12:39

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Nowdays excessive run for the higher configurations seems to be more a way to compensate lower and lower sw optimization. I believe the main benefits of our higher processing power/memory show in gaming, multimedia and physics simulation. When it comes to productivity, though, the need for …

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Re: Pentium processor and the 1993/95 ...

Posted on 2015-09-10, 10:40

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I remember the Athlon moment as probably a jump for Amd itself as a battle that last since the Am386 maybe.

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Pentium processor and the 1993/95 ...

Posted on 2015-09-10, 09:54

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Hi, I was reading some magazine of the 1995 and everywhere you could read, just as I remember, was underlined the greatness of the original Pentium architecture. It makes me think at that time when 486 was pushed at at the already incredible 100Mhz target (ok more..) but Pentium architecture when …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-09-10, 09:41

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Bought 4 x 4MB 30pin 60ns. Today I want to repair a broken at supply or repair with wires a 386 mobo.

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Re: Usual RAM sizes back in the 386/486/Pentium years

Posted on 2015-09-10, 09:04

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Nowdays excessive run for the higher configurations seems to be more a way to compensate lower and lower sw optimization. I'm fairly sure people have been saying that forever. ;) Yeah. I doubt really if productivity did improve as much as the big progress of computing power and what changed for the …

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Re: Some PCI/ISA/VLB video cards info

Posted on 2015-09-09, 20:55

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If they are cheap get them all. I agree with Stojke...can you not get them all? But if you had to choose, I would also say CL. But getting all of them would be good to at least have extra VRAM chips to add to other cards. Yeah I think I will take them all. But I already have to spend a lot for 4MB …

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Re: Usual RAM sizes back in the 386/486/Pentium years

Posted on 2015-09-09, 20:23

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Darkman wrote: looking back 32MB seems small , though of course in 10 or 15 years time Im sure I will look back on today and wonder just how I got by with a "tiny" 8GB on my current system Nowdays excessive run for the higher configurations seems to be more a way to compensate lower and lower sw …

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Re: Usual RAM sizes back in the 386/486/Pentium years

Posted on 2015-09-09, 20:15

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My family got a low end 386SX-16MHz PC in ~1991 or early 92. It had 8 30pin sockets supporting 256KB or 1MB each, so the maximum was 8MB. It came with 2MB consisting of two 1MB 30pin 70ns SIMMs. The manual said it only needed 80ns, but even at the time it was built they were already putting faster …

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Re: Usual RAM sizes back in the 386/486/Pentium years

Posted on 2015-09-09, 15:29

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A friend of mine had 24MB of SIMM memory for his Pentium MMX 166MHz iirc (2x4MB FPM and 2x8MB EDO, the 4MB modules were from when they upgraded from a Pentium 90) My first PC was a Pentium II 350MHz and it had a massive 128MB (though at the time I remember them being sold with 32MB and 64MB). Yeah …

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Re: Usual RAM sizes back in the 386/486/Pentium years

Posted on 2015-09-09, 13:16

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Yeah I do remember it was really expensive even the 30 pin simms when 72 pins were already released.I remember that when I saw the counter on the 386 that had 16MB of ram running at boot, it was unbeleivable to me... Must have been a high-end board. My 386SX-16 simply didn't fit more than 5 MB: 1 …

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Re: Some PCI/ISA/VLB video cards info

Posted on 2015-09-09, 13:06

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Considered the releasing years, the Alliance and the RealMagic did have some features to test or just another 2D card?

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Re: Usual RAM sizes back in the 386/486/Pentium years

Posted on 2015-09-09, 13:04

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In my case: 386SX-16 bought around 1990 with 1 MB of RAM, expanded somewhat later to 5 MB. 486DX2-66 bought around 1994 with 4 MB of RAM, expanded to 8 MB later (currently 16 MB, but that doesn't really count, it's a single 72-pin module that didn't even exist back then). Pentium 133 bought around …

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Re: Usual RAM sizes back in the 386/486/Pentium years

Posted on 2015-09-09, 13:00

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Yeah I do remember it was really expensive even the 30 pin simms when 72 pins were already released.I remember that when I saw the counter on the 386 that had 16MB of ram running at boot, it was unbeleivable to me...

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Usual RAM sizes back in the 386/486/Pentium years

Posted on 2015-09-09, 12:45

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Hi, my memory sometimes falls thinking at the amount of ram we had back in those days. What I do remember is that back in 1993/94 (I can't remember exactly the moment) we had our first generic 386SX-16/20Mhz soldered, low profile desktop PC that had 1MB of 30pin ram while a friend already had since …

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Some PCI/ISA/VLB video cards info

Posted on 2015-09-09, 10:38

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Hi I could get this cards if you can tell me something about them: -Alliance Promotion AT25 PCI -RealMagic 64/GX SD6426 PCI -OTI077 T9330 RT-3202 ISA -Trident TGUI9420DGi VLB 7343L -ATI 28800-5 MTX 1024A ISA -Cirrus Logic GD5429 VLB Are they good to have and test? I didn't even know that RealMagic …

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Re: Am386DX-40 with L2 256Kb 15ns cache

Posted on 2015-09-08, 19:05

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Well if we have to measure when they became "faster" everywhere I would agree with the Radeon 8500 chipset but I cannot forget previous solutions like the Rage Fury Maxx (:D) and certainly the first original Radeon.

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Re: Am386DX-40 with L2 256Kb 15ns cache

Posted on 2015-09-08, 18:23

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OAK are known as Video Decelerators. Ah ah but I have to admit I admire them to be my very first computer video card (probably the same one I found now, but this one has a dual bios and also a sort of serial port near the vga one. It's not a serial port, it's a CGA/EGA/MDA (TTL) monitor port. I'm …

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Re: AT power supply strange noise, not booting

Posted on 2015-09-08, 11:16

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Well I am going to open it and see what it is wrong inside... I update as soon as possible.

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