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You thought correctly. The Pentium II was just a Pentium Pro with the L2 cache removed from the core, and placed on seperate chips on the same processor module to save costs.

Just to be annoying, couldn't we also say that the L2 in the Pentium Pro was also removed from the core because it actually consisted of 2 seperate wafers sitting side by side with interlinks?

Sorry. ; )

I know what you mean though. Seperate packages.

No, he means the joystick port, AKA the game port.
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I just replaced a 386 with 2MB of RAM and a 4GB SCSI hard disk with a 3.2GHz P4/256MB/40GB (it's what I had handy. Sue me.) to run a DOS 6 Clipper-based point-of-sale application that probably originated on an XT. The motherboard or CPU didn't survive a power failure.

The oldest hardware I still use is a Honeywell Footed Mouse.

It's probably 12 or 13 years old.

I also have a couple 20MB Seagate SCSI drives that still work. ... and I'm in regular contact with a customer who has a Netware 3 server with nearly 4000 days of uptime.

I hear a lot about apple machines lasting longer than PCs. Does anyone know why this is?

Windows code bloat, and the fact that Macs have much tighter integration of hardware and OS.

A Mac purchased new in late 1996 would have shipped with Mac OS 7.5.3 or 7.6. From then until now that Mac could have had its OS upgraded about six times (8.0, 8.1, 8.5, 8.6, 9.0, 9.1) throughout the life of the machine, with little more than a RAM upgrade from the stock configuration. Just for argument's sake, we'll call it three major OS upgrades-- 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0. At any rate, the OS upgrades would not have much overall impact on the speed of the machine as perceived by the user, i.e. it wouldn't seem too much slower. The only place where this doesn't hold true is with the last beige Power Macs, which are unsupported when it comes to running OS X.

The average Windows PC from 1996 would've had about a Pentium 200, and been running Windows 95. Good luck upgrading that through 98, 98SE, and ME. The code bloat would have slowed the computer to a crawl, and I don't even want to think about trying to find new drivers for the components in the old PC that were probably discontinued by early 1997.

This is why Macs have historically retained high resale values-- they're still useful years after manufacture. Don't believe me? Try looking on eBay for Two Power Mac models: 8600 and 9600. They are very upgradable (to G3 or G4), lots of drive bays, etc. You can add FireWire and USB with a PCI card, and generally get a pretty good approximation of a recent Power Mac. They also make fantastic servers. I have three 7600s in my house performing various server duties, and they are more than capable of doing what I ask of them.

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Here's a site in Australia that has some more detailed information. Everything the Anonymous Coward first poster said sounds pretty accurate (!).

The card they're using here is the Telsat Turbo, from SatNet. It's a PCI card, and it says in their FAQ that they're working on drivers for MacOS and Linux. It should already work under Windows NT. And yeah, you need a modem too.
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This one is super accurate - say, accurate enough to fire it from California, and hit someone in the head in, say, Redmond Seattle.

The barrel is 4 yards long, calibre .303 inches. It has taken 4 years to build so far because the barrel and rifling need to be 100% perfect for this level of accuracy. This requires 4 years of hand finished rifling grooves.

Once a round has been fired, the barrel then has to be discarded, as the wear from a single bullet will be enough to alter the accuracy.

The first (and only) round is due to be fired at midnight on New Years Eve, and all being well, will successfully blow billy's brains out.

The Cops in Seattle will be able to determine the direction that the shot came from, but no-one will be able to guess just how _far_ the bullet travelled.

SteveOC

Eljay General Accounting System Home Page at http://members.iweb.net.au/~steveoc/ERP/ is another GPL work in progress.