Re: Intel publishes a white paper on x86S, a 64-bit only architecture

Posted on 2023-05-25, 14:46

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The old catchword, that crutch "emulation" is worse than useless. Why should we be forced to limit speed to that of a 486 using emulation when it would be so simple to keep in legacy 16/32 bit modes? Apple changes architecture every decade, throws in an emulator and they're sitting on the biggest …

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Re: Intel publishes a white paper on x86S, a 64-bit only architecture

Posted on 2023-05-23, 17:15

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It is funny how some people compare this to the Itanium (IA-64) architecture, which has nothing in common with x86 (let alone x86-64) with the exception of poor emulators. Intel has a track record of trying to leave x86 behind (iAPX 432, i860, Itanium). Those all flopped and time has come again for …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-09, 19:03

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Even if someone feels that a piece of hardware is overhyped and overpriced, they aren't going to list something for $50 if they think they can get $300 for it. That's the negative effect of 'the long tail'. Without a factory in Mexico pumping them out, without limited space in a distribution …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-09, 18:27

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Took a chance on a listing for an i810 board that mentioned a Tualatin was already installed. Amazingly I got it without any other bidders, and surprisingly the seller didn't go in a huff and cancel the listing for not clearing an unstated reserve price. So that's the second PIII-S 1.4 I've obtained …

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Re: Is it possible to remove a Pentium III CPU from a Slot 1 board and use this CPU on a Socket 370 motherboard?

Posted on 2023-03-22, 00:32

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The cartridges for Coppermine PIIIs are basically like a slocket without a ZIF socket, it just exposes the soldered-on CPU pins in the SC242 form factor. Once you've desoldered it, you'd need to mount the BGA onto an appropriate adapter for fitting in a PGA370 socket. Which all sounds like a fiddly …

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Re: B/W VHS - possible or not?

Posted on 2023-03-21, 16:48

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I believe so. PCM audio was originally stored on video tape as pure luma.

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Re: percentage of old PCs and components that are saved?

Posted on 2023-03-08, 16:47

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Even the government is in on the act with car trade in schemes to help the "environment" ok maybe a little, but lets be honest it helped the economy a lot more! Economics drives environmental policy far more than environmentalism. Recycling is sold as a panacea when it's the least effective of the …

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Re: percentage of old PCs and components that are saved?

Posted on 2023-03-06, 18:27

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Of course most of it is destroyed recycled, the OEMs wouldn't have it any other way - last year's sales are an obstacle to this year's sales. Get ready for the great TPM 2.0 sloughage!

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Re: Modems in a Retro build?

Posted on 2023-03-03, 18:58

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Yes, it reminds me of a time when the screech of the modem was a sonic wall which kept the real and the virtual apart. No-one was terminally online then.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-03, 15:36

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Little haul today. Running the gamut of PCI GeForces, and a modded K6-2+ I want to try on my CT-5RSA2.

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Re: mobygames new interface

Posted on 2023-02-22, 19:44

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Errius wrote on 2023-02-22, 18:24: However you can get the old interface back by adding /reference to the URL Thank you so much. I've been going through a lot of film listings and the current bloated site takes ages to load. Now it actually loads like I have 70 megabit broadband rather than dial-up …

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Re: mobygames new interface

Posted on 2023-02-22, 18:10

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I sure do love it when a website has to fix what isn't broken. I wondered why thumbnails weren't loading... praise be, it's webp!

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Re: Pentium II 550mhz

Posted on 2023-02-14, 22:25

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As mentioned, the Pentium II was expected to be longer lived, but after only about a year on the market Intel rebranded it to Pentium III. It really should have been called the Pentium II SSE, as per the Pentium MMX. And then the Pentium 4... oh never mind. This is what happens when marketing runs …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-14, 19:12

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That's an ECS BookPC BKi810 . Most of the information online seems to be in Japanese. I've got one but haven't done anything with it yet because the wierd SFF form factor makes it a pain to put in any case other than the original one. Well three years after picking up that motherboard and not …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-02-09, 16:23

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BTW 33.6 is effectively the hobbyist speed limit now anyway, max speed two consumer 56k modems will connect is ~33.6 (I have heard certain combos might push it to 35.xx) but a true 56k connection is asymmetric needing a high spendy ISP grade modem with a special method of line connection at one end …

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Re: What is PCI-X?

Posted on 2023-01-31, 17:18

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Yep it's PCI-64 pretty much like ISA-16 versus the 8 bit original (or nowadays, people using the wrong abbreviation for pci express)! I think it's more a repeat of EISA: mostly confined to servers, pushed by a group of OEMs as a stop-gap until the next generation of IO turned up. EISA is to PCI as …

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Re: Do movies suck these days?

Posted on 2022-11-24, 21:05

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I'm pretty sure movies have always sucked. We forget the bad ones and remember the good ones, giving the impression that things were better in the past. They weren't. Agreed, op should start watching RedLetterMedia, we used to enjoy a lot of slop it appears Star Wars™, AIDS, 9/11. A one stop shop …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-16, 15:25

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Hey, was that Chaintech board from the UK? If it was, I soo tempted to buy it but I've got too many Super Socket 7 boards, even if they are all AT rather than ATX. Pretty much perfect, it's a shame Chaintech boards are so rare. Yes. I didn't jump on it immediately because I'm more interested in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-15, 19:11

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Ah, when two eBay saved searches ping at the same time and you realise it's the same seller. Had to snap up the Chaintech 5RSA2-C150 as it was a very reasonable price, and the Asus P5PE-VM may make for a cheap alternative to an ASRock 775i65G. Unfortunately they were packed in bubblewrap so I hope I …

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Re: Year 2038 bug?

Posted on 2022-09-30, 18:35

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Found this tool https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/repeatin … .html?year=2038 Restarting from 2010 looks like it holds the pattern for 28 years up until hitting 2038 again (2010 matches 2038, 2011 matches 2039, 2012 matches 2040... 2037 matches 2065).

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