First post, by grettke
Good afternoon,
I'm setting up my first retro gaming and computing box. My goal is:
Running operating systems
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP
- 1995ish versions of linux like Slackware and RedHat
- MS DOS, Windows 3.11, 95, NT 4
Playing DOS games
- Descent
- Wolf 3D
- Doom
Searching Ebay I narrowed it down to 20 Dell boxes, then 10, then 9, and that was split between Dimension XPS and OptiPlex boxes.
The only difference between them was MMX with 256KB external cache.
They are Pentium 200 MMX with 256KB external cache and Pentium 200 with 512KB external cache.
Researching I read this post MMX vs Non MMX for Gaming.
Based on that, it seems like the external cache on the plain Pentium makes the CPUs nearly equivalent.
What do you think?