Reply 60 of 229, by AlessandroB
wrote:wrote:wrote:Personally I find a slow 286, 8Mhz and a Pentium 90 cover everything I want to play. I can tweak the P90 to slow it down if needed and the 286 covers everything else, with the exception of things designed to run on an 8086 which is not of my interest. So where everyone else seems to like 386 and 486 machines I dont understand the desire for those machines since the P90 will run all the early psuedo 3d games much better as well as most of the 2d games as well (and can be slowed down by disabling cache for speed sensetive games).
I lived through these times and it wasn't until we hit the Pentium that I really saw a machine capable of running modern software to the degree required. I have no interest in maintaining or building a 386 or 486 even though I owned those at the time.
the point is just this, I created this post to judge if objectively the 286 was useless, not if it was personally useful for past experiences or particular preferences.
Yes, that was my point, in my opinion the 386 and 486 are useless, the 286 has merit.
Yes and i totally respect your opinion. Clearly if I had time I would like to discover the secrets of computers 286, but unfortunately my generation (40 years) especially here in Italy does not have much time for hobbies so I have to concentrate on systems with "high degree of compatibility" such as pentium3. I specified from the beginning that my personal story started with DX2 and that, in my opinion, it was the real turning point where the PC started to excel as an IT environment on the other platforms, showing DX2 in forward the most beautiful things.