actually, the mediagx chip from cyrix used a 486 core, and some ran over 233MHz. cyrix added additional functionality, but the cpu core itself was their old 486 design. amd used to make 3.3v 486s (66 MHz could run without an heat sink) from 66 to 133MHz.
of course, as mentioned by lots of people, performance of these chips just wasn't up to par as far as comparisons to the pentium go.
hey, with the lower power consumption, maybe those stupid SX chips weren't so stupid after all!!:)
this falls under the ebay price structure... get the geek in your life an SMP mobo for Yule.
a BP6 and two Celery 533s runs a little over $300, while the new VP6 and two P3s can run up to $1500.
http://www.abit-usa.com
i'm telling you, go smp on your desktop, and you'll never go back (just for the record, i went the bp6 and dual celery route - way cheap, and performance is great) to a single cpu again.
'member how far in advance intel was designing the PPro, and figured that everyone would be running true 32-bit code?
i believe that 5 years (from design to RTM silicon) is something that goes on now at Intel and AMD, so there's nothing new being said in this article...
lack of a degree can definitely hold one back. i do ok for a living becuz i'm a contractor (unix, of course), but i'd have more choices with a BS or even as mentioned above) and AA.
naw, neither foxpro or access will run the AS3AP benchmark (i've tried it). I'm as surprised as the next guy, though... i do remember postgresql as clunky and slow (remember when they kind of sidestepped the issue of performance? "it's not the fastest, and it's not the slowest"), and I thought Interbase was pretty fast...
ah, well...
too bad they couldn't publish the commercial database names - it would've been most illuminating to see what version of Oracle and Sybase (gads, sybase is slow) they're testing against...
actually, fuckhead, if you want to run your applications under dos then run them under fucking dos, not under 165MB of GUI, k? maybe freedos or some other alternative.
Once again, I'm forced to bring up Firewire - no more device IDs, reasonable transfer rate, and hot-plug (to dig through that stack of 75GB IDE drives!). This is one reason why I've been looking into 1394 on non-Windows OSes - I'm amassing quite the useless collection of digital media, and I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to grow. Firewire seems like a good bet.
Otherwise, I'd say DVD-ROM, since it would have true archive-type storage (read-only), and it's bigger than CD-ROM.
The 550's pretty cool... I replaced a K6-2 400 with a 550 a while ago, and set the clock multiplier on my way-generic SuperSocket 7 board to 2 (which is 6 on the K6-2 family)...it ticks along all right at 600MHz. It's not great (I've got a friend with a 433 Celery that i think is as fast at games), but it makes a cheap and pretty good unix workstation, esp. with a good video card.
Being poor and therefore cheap for most of my personal computing experience, I've pretty much used AMD chips when I had to buy CPUs.
The K5 and K6 units have pretty good integer performance, but the floating point blows. The numbering scheme isn't too difficult if one has followed the chip's life, but if you haven't, it doesn't really make much sense.
Ya, I know when I went to The Apple Store to purchase a G4 cube, I was confused by the fact that Cobalt sells a server called Qube, and so I left the Apple website without buying anything. So then I went to CompUSA, and asked the guy about a G4 Cube, and he said 'Sorry, we don't carry Cobalt products!" so I got no satisfaction there, and now I'm really confused...
give me a break. another fucking gratuitous lawsuit.
USB support available in the GENERIC (aka, boot) kernel - this rocks... no more putting X config off until I get the box all set up so I can use a USB mouse (or Zip drive), and then recompile my own kernel, and mess that up a few times, and then have to... anyway, you get the idea...
awesome... (although I too just finished getting 4.0 squared away...argh).
Sybase ASE is available for Linux (in fact, it was one of the first, if not the first, commercial RDBMS available for Linux)...
I think RAID 10 (or 0+1, however you want to count it) would be a better choice for performance... RAID 5 is not a great performer, unless you're going to spend bucks on a caching controller that'll let you get around the small-write problem...
Interbase is fast - for what I've been doing with it (workgroup-sized (less than 50 users)), it's as fast or faster than MySQL, and it has better SQL support. Memory footprint's not too bad, either.
I'd highly recommend it - it's stable even when running on Win2K.
Slightly off-topic, but Enlightenment runs on BeOS...
I'd like to see QNX's Photon as an alternative to X... not that I have a problem with X per se, but more choices would be better, esp. something 'thinner' would always be welcome...
Does anyone have any experience with ADS Tech's IDE-Firewire enclosure? I recently acquired (ok, someone gave it to me)a Maxtor 40GB 7.2K IDE drive, and I was interested in perhaps putting it in a Firewire enclosure.
I saw it on Friday after work - it was good. I think it captured the spirit of The Uncanny X-Men (!) very well, even if it wasn't a direct book-to-screen translation.
It seemed there was no clear-cut definition of good versus evil in the flick (even at the end, with the conversation between erik and charles) - just two different viewpoints to the same argument.
It was a good action flick that wasn't too presumptuous. If you're looking for the screen version of the book, don't go see the flick. If you want to have a good time seeing your fave mutants behave as real people, check it out.
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of course, as mentioned by lots of people, performance of these chips just wasn't up to par as far as comparisons to the pentium go.
hey, with the lower power consumption, maybe those stupid SX chips weren't so stupid after all!! :)
a BP6 and two Celery 533s runs a little over $300, while the new VP6 and two P3s can run up to $1500.
http://www.abit-usa.com
i'm telling you, go smp on your desktop, and you'll never go back (just for the record, i went the bp6 and dual celery route - way cheap, and performance is great) to a single cpu again.
'member how far in advance intel was designing the PPro, and figured that everyone would be running true 32-bit code?
i believe that 5 years (from design to RTM silicon) is something that goes on now at Intel and AMD, so there's nothing new being said in this article...
it gets the job done, i suppose, but i wouldn't use the word 'excellent' to describe it.
different strokes, i guess.
lack of a degree can definitely hold one back. i do ok for a living becuz i'm a contractor (unix, of course), but i'd have more choices with a BS or even as mentioned above) and AA.
ah, well... too bad they couldn't publish the commercial database names - it would've been most illuminating to see what version of Oracle and Sybase (gads, sybase is slow) they're testing against...
fucking r0dent...
um, if there's a command.com, couldn't one click Start>>run, and type in command.com?
Otherwise, I'd say DVD-ROM, since it would have true archive-type storage (read-only), and it's bigger than CD-ROM.
Firewire!
The 550's pretty cool... I replaced a K6-2 400 with a 550 a while ago, and set the clock multiplier on my way-generic SuperSocket 7 board to 2 (which is 6 on the K6-2 family)...it ticks along all right at 600MHz. It's not great (I've got a friend with a 433 Celery that i think is as fast at games), but it makes a cheap and pretty good unix workstation, esp. with a good video card.
The K5 and K6 units have pretty good integer performance, but the floating point blows. The numbering scheme isn't too difficult if one has followed the chip's life, but if you haven't, it doesn't really make much sense.
k5 = Socket 7 P54C pentium compatible - 16K instruction cache, 8k data cache
K6 = Socket 7 P55C(mmx) - 32K instruction cache, 20K predecode cache, 32k data cache
K6-2 = Super Socket 7 (mmx, 3dnow, 100MHz bus) - 32K instruction cache, 20k predecode cache, 32k data cache
k6-III = Super Socket 7 (mmx, 3dnow, 100MHz bus) - 32K instruction cache, 32K data cache, 256K on-chip full-speed L2 cache
Mobile K6-2+ = Super Socket 7 (mmx, 3dnow, 100MHz bus) - 32K instruction cache, 20K predecode cache, 32K data cache, 128K full-speed on-chip L2 cache
Mobile K6-III = Super Socket 7 (mmx, 3dnow, 100MHz bus) - 32K instruction, 20K predecode, 32K data, 256K on-chip full-speed L2 cache
The fastest the chip can go right now is 600MHz (6x100MHz).
The K6-III and the Mobile K6 series can all use a motherboard-based L3 cache of up to 2MB.
Hopefully this will shed some basic light on the K6 family.
I only saw mention of Firewire support for digital video; I didn't see anything about using Firewire for mass storage (which is what I'm looking for).
give me a break. another fucking gratuitous lawsuit.
my bad - the poser of the question did ask about DW...
FreeBSD 4 Rock Stable and Performance it's free like linux!
awesome... (although I too just finished getting 4.0 squared away...argh).
I think RAID 10 (or 0+1, however you want to count it) would be a better choice for performance... RAID 5 is not a great performer, unless you're going to spend bucks on a caching controller that'll let you get around the small-write problem...
I prefer freedom of choice over freedom of source code (no doubt I'm in the minority, though).
I'd highly recommend it - it's stable even when running on Win2K.
I'd like to see QNX's Photon as an alternative to X... not that I have a problem with X per se, but more choices would be better, esp. something 'thinner' would always be welcome...
maybe miguel wants to use GNOME to replace X, eh?
Does anyone have any experience with ADS Tech's IDE-Firewire enclosure? I recently acquired (ok, someone gave it to me)a Maxtor 40GB 7.2K IDE drive, and I was interested in perhaps putting it in a Firewire enclosure.
can you picture a cluster of these? shiny little boxes, and no fans... geez.
It seemed there was no clear-cut definition of good versus evil in the flick (even at the end, with the conversation between erik and charles) - just two different viewpoints to the same argument.
It was a good action flick that wasn't too presumptuous. If you're looking for the screen version of the book, don't go see the flick. If you want to have a good time seeing your fave mutants behave as real people, check it out.
Um, why would anyone want to corrupt BSD4.4 with System V?