Re: HELP figuring out DIP Switches for an old AST Flashpak 8086 processor upgrade card!

Posted on 2022-05-23, 00:03

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by Anonymous Coward

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So wait...you're telling me that this thing can take TWO 8087s? Now that's crazy! From what I can tell your card is very rare. I only managed to find one discussion about it on VCFed, where the author asks if anyone had one, because he'd seen it in a magazine but never in real life. My guess is that …

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Re: amd 751 irongate motherboard questions

Posted on 2022-05-22, 23:09

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by Anonymous Coward

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Does anyone know why AMD didn't push the Irongate from the get go? They seemed perfectly content allowing shitty companies like VIA to dominate their platform. I avoided Athlon like the plague because I knew I'd get stuck with VIA, which had already burned me with their crappy Socket7 products. I …

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Re: HELP figuring out DIP Switches for an old AST Flashpak 8086 processor upgrade card!

Posted on 2022-05-22, 14:21

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by Anonymous Coward

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This looks like an interesting card. Does it have any cache or RAM onboard? It doesn't appear that way. (Those toshiba chips appear to be SRAMs) It's interesting that there are four sockets for 40-pin ICs. Looks like the two on the left are for the V30 and 8087. But what are the two on the right for …

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Re: amd 751 irongate motherboard questions

Posted on 2022-05-22, 04:59

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by Anonymous Coward

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Does anyone know why AMD didn't push the Irongate from the get go? They seemed perfectly content allowing shitty companies like VIA to dominate their platform. I avoided Athlon like the plague because I knew I'd get stuck with VIA, which had already burned me with their crappy Socket7 products. I …

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Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

Posted on 2022-05-22, 02:20

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by Anonymous Coward

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How will it cause any fatalities. They have lowered space launch costs by 95%. If we recall the Challenger and Columbia, we know that space travel is inherently dangerous. At least with the space shuttle program the most dangerous component of the system was not being reused. Privatization and cost …

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Re: Weird OMTi 486 mb

Posted on 2022-05-21, 23:21

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by Anonymous Coward

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I've never seen that weird SIMM spacing on a Soyo board. Looks like something PCchips would do.....just like the M919.

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Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

Posted on 2022-05-21, 23:14

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SpaceX and Starlink are "not that innovative"? lol k. Perhaps SpaceX is an innovative way of stealing taxpayer money to privatize NASA. The idea of reusing booster rockers is just idiotic and will result in many fatal catastrophes if it comes to fruition. Did I miss something about StarLink? It's …

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Re: Weird OMTi 486 mb

Posted on 2022-05-21, 12:58

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by Anonymous Coward

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It's too bad that the 895 chip didn't actually say "OMTI", then we would could rule out at least one of the possibilities of what the chip actually is.

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Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

Posted on 2022-05-21, 12:48

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Don't forget about eating bugs and the vegetarian equivalent of pink slime. I mostly agree with all the hated rich jerks, but not Bernie Madoff. Bernie Madoff is my hero. He only screwed over other rich assholes and brainless celebrities.

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Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. (i486 DOSBox)

Posted on 2022-05-21, 01:45

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Despite being in high demand, Trio64 is indeed a budget graphics IC. Until a certain point, eBay was actually flooded with VLB Trio64s, primarily the Diamond versions. new in box. They weren't really available until 1995, by which time people were avoiding VLB 486s...thus most went unsold. They are …

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Re: Weird OMTi 486 mb

Posted on 2022-05-20, 23:56

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by Anonymous Coward

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Now THAT is interesting. I've never seen anything like this before....just claims that OPTi was really a clone of something else. Maybe this is the board that helped create this rumour. There could be explanations for it. Perhaps by this time OPTi was focusing on their Pentium chipsets and didn't …

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Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. (i486 DOSBox)

Posted on 2022-05-20, 23:43

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by Anonymous Coward

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486's in general aren't that useful, most speed sensitive games want something earlier and later dos games want a Pentium. I kind of get tired of hearing this argument. A 486 can't play 8088 games well? Can an 8088 play most games made after 1987 well (or at all)? Do 286s play games made after 1990 …

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Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

Posted on 2022-05-20, 08:24

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I refuse to set foot in a self driving EV, especially if it's sold by snake oil salesman Elon Musk. Everything that guy is involved in is not all that innovative or an outright scam. Only the technologically ignorant think that guy is the second coming of Steve Jabs (another overrated con artist). …

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Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

Posted on 2022-05-19, 17:54

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I absolutely think that most modern cars are much much better than cars of the past in just about every way - however the further back you go the more readily maintained cars are. You really owned them back then and they felt different to drive from model to model too. This is true to a point. …

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Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

Posted on 2022-05-19, 00:18

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Especially in the last 10-15 years I feel like all of it went to shit. It's not your imagination. It actually is going to shit. It was actually going to shit sometime before that, but you didn't notice as much because it wasn't "in your face". Enjoy the show. If you live in the USA, you get a front …

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Re: Building Retro 486

Posted on 2022-05-18, 07:36

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by Anonymous Coward

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I think it's more accurate to say that certain steppings of late 486 chipsets "support" EDO RAM. I have seen different opinions if it's actually worth the trouble to bother.

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Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

Posted on 2022-05-16, 14:51

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No, they got Worf. It's just less obvious because his sash and Crusher's head is in the way.

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Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

Posted on 2022-05-16, 10:02

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Charlie is a bit of a wanker, but I did like him in being John malkovich. Now his brother emilio, that is a fine actor.

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Re: SX955 is the BEST 486DX2 CPU?

Posted on 2022-05-15, 15:34

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by Anonymous Coward

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I don't think that's true. Intel made 3.3V DX/2s as well. They shared silicon with the DX/4, even retaining the 2X/3X multiplier selection.

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Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

Posted on 2022-05-15, 14:04

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by Anonymous Coward

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You really wanted to live in the world of TNG? I guess the Romulans were pretty cool, but everyone in the Federation seemed to have a bug up their ass. Maybe they were just all grumpy from having to wear tight fitting spandex uniforms every day (and probably girdles to hide their beer bellies). …

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