What about a UNIVAC emulator? You could even hook up equivalents of the peripherals to it, and have a somewhat realistic experience without blowing tubes.
Actually, you're both wrong in one way or another. Spam is digital data. It might be represented in a two dimensional form, but it's most definitely ONE dimensional. Buttload it is.
No - it was a clock 2.5-timed 33MHz CPU. The 166 was a clock 2.5-timed 66MHz CPU. The 83 Overdrive ran on a bus at half the speed and half the width, meaning it was REALLY crippled.
The i860's code name was N10. NT stood for N Ten, the pronunciation of the code name. The programmers realized that it wouldn't sell, and changed NT to New Technology.
Because it was part of the 8000 series. Long story, but here goes:
The 4004 was the fourth element of the MCS-4, or 4000 series (4 for 4-bit). The 8008 continued the trend, just changing every 4 to an 8. The 8080 was improved, so the digit got pushed to the left. 8085 was even better, so a digit got upped. They then needed a 6 from 16 in there, so 8086. 8088 because they were running out of numbers, and then they added a digit to up the line. It's really twisted;-).
8086 - Intel's first 16-bit uP 8087 - Math coprocessor for 8086/8 8088 - 8086 with 8-bit bus, meant it could be used with 8080/8085 chipset
80186/8 - Adds many features to 86/88 80187 - 8087 with new package for 186/8
80286 - Adds protected mode 80287 - Math coP for 286
80385 - Cache controller 80386DX - 32-bit uP 80386SX - DX with 16-bit bus, can be considered 80388 80387 - Math coP for 386 (DX and SX versions)
80486DX - Improved 80386DX, 80385, on-board cache (8 or 16k), 80387 80486SX - Minus the improved 80387 80487SX - 80486DX that disables the already present SX chip
Pentium - Even more integrated chip, 64-bit bus, 32-bit internal
Pentium Pro/II/III/M, AMD K6/K7 - RISC internally, later versions have SIMD instructions
Pentium 4 - Adds SMT, will add 64-bit
AMD K8 - Adds 64-bit in all but one version
Performance is increased from 4004 to 4040 and 8008, 8008 to 8080, 8080 to 8085, 8085 to 8086 and 8088, 8086/8 to 80186/8, 8018x to 286, 286 and 386 to 486, 486, Pentium, PPro to P2, P2 to P3, P3 to PM. I didn't include AMD CPUs in that part.
You know the rest of that? It's stolen from bash.org, and the rest reads:
Well, you can still get one from a strange country;-).
(this was an IRC conversation, and it was the reply to the previous line)
Also, you don't realize the translucent shimmering text is already possible as early as Word 2000, and it might even be in Word 97. WordArt can be translucent, and regular text can be shimmering (it's in text effects or something on the Font dialog).
My first PC was an IBM PS/1 (PCjr was it's predecessor, Aptiva was it's successor), with 1MB RAM, a 386SX/16 (I think), and a 40MB hard drive. From what I've seen, I think it was a Canadian model, even though I'm in the US (my grandmother got it on closeout from Sun Electronics, an old bargain-basement electronics chain - H.H. Gregg is pretty much the same thing). It ran DOS 4.0 (I forget whose, but I remember IBM copyrights, so probably PC-DOS), and had the 4-Quad screen. We never used the modem, and (this one's a computer stupidity) had to fight the mouse because she threw away the ring that held the ball in, thinking it was packing material. We tried and tried to get a new mouse, but all we'd find was PS/2 (no PS/2 port) and serial (no serial port either). Turns out, it was an AT mouse - we needed a AT-PS/2 keyboard converter like what's on my older tower now (I'm using a PS/2 Model M, and it's an AT tower).
40MB was hardly enough. We were filling it quickly, and we weren't even power users! (my parents told me to not touch BASICA.COM, because I might erase files - if I wanted to mess about with BASIC, I had to grab one of my Apple IIs)
The 286 was designed because Intel had this great 32-bit processor that added all these features, but it was too far ahead of it's time, and they couldn't release it (yet, more on that later). It included some of the most important parts of that processor. Since the design was newer, it also fixed some bugs with the 32-bit CPU's design, and had better performance.
Fast forward a few years, and a need for a 32-bit CPU appears. Intel calls that old CPU that was designed years ago, and that the 286 was based on, the 386.
The 286 was designed AFTER the 386 - that's part of the reason why a Harris 286/25 can give an AMD 386DX/40 a run for it's money (the AMD chip is identical to the Intel chip, it's just faster and cheaper - the 386 was the last all-Intel-design AMD chip).
BTW, it doesn't really require 64MB RAM and a 233MHz Pentium II - look at this thread - one 20MHz Pentium I with 32MB RAM, and one 63MHz Pentium Overdrive with 18MB RAM(!)
Anyone willing to try my ideas in that thread (run on a 5x86, and run on Bochs on a 386 STUFFED with RAM)?
Umm... you know what NT, as in Windows NT, really stands for? Hint: it's not "New Technology". It's N Ten, N10, the code name for the i860, the first processor NT was designed for.
NT WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR THE i860 - MICROSOFT DID NOT KILL IT! What killed it was the release date being pushed back, and MS having to release SOMETHING to go up against OS/2, so they ported NT to the x86, and the rest is history.
Netscape 4.x has an AIM client built in, so you might consider that on Windows 3.1. For browsing, I'd suggest Opera 3.62 for surfing, and Internet Explorer 5.0 16-bit (doesn't have the security holes that the 32-bit version does) for when a page doesn't render in Opera (likely, as it's an old version) or Netscrape (again, likely).
INTEL: SERVER: Itanium (High-end) Xeon (Low-end) DESKTOP: Pentium 4 EE (High-end) Pentium 4 (Mid-end) Celeron (Low-end) MOBILE: Pentium M (high-end) (Centrino CPU) Mobille Pentium 4, Pentium 4-M (mid-end, soon to be phased out in favor of Pentium M) Celeron (low-end, soon to be phased out in favor of Celeron M), Celeron M (low-end)
AMD: SERVER: Opteron (high-end) Athlon MP (low-end, soon to be phased out in favor of Opteron) DESKTOP: Athlon 64 FX (high-end) Athlon 64 (mid-end) Athlon XP (low-end) Duron (bottom-end) Semptron (or whatever the heck it is, bottom-end, replacing Duron) MOBILE: Athlon 64 (high-end) Athlon XP (low-end)
Short Circuit's plot description: Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes. EXPERIMENTAL ROBOTS, NOT TOYS.
Toy Story, on the other hand, involves this "Sid" that mods his (sentient) toys (and a couple he found, who are the main characters), and they decide to show themselves, and attack him.
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125KW per box, we'll make a small 16-box cluster, so that's TWO MEGAWATTS! WOW!
Scott Richter (776062) saying "that mod points only go to people with fairly new accounts"?
Why's he complaining?
BTW, I've got my 21st through 25th mod points a couple days ago, and I might use them...
What about a UNIVAC emulator? You could even hook up equivalents of the peripherals to it, and have a somewhat realistic experience without blowing tubes.
No - read "dirvish"'s blog.
The "Spam my AventureMail" page was modeled after this "Spam my GMail".
Actually, you're both wrong in one way or another. Spam is digital data. It might be represented in a two dimensional form, but it's most definitely ONE dimensional. Buttload it is.
No - it was a clock 2.5-timed 33MHz CPU. The 166 was a clock 2.5-timed 66MHz CPU. The 83 Overdrive ran on a bus at half the speed and half the width, meaning it was REALLY crippled.
Even more trivia:
The i860's code name was N10. NT stood for N Ten, the pronunciation of the code name. The programmers realized that it wouldn't sell, and changed NT to New Technology.
Because it was part of the 8000 series. Long story, but here goes:
;-).
The 4004 was the fourth element of the MCS-4, or 4000 series (4 for 4-bit). The 8008 continued the trend, just changing every 4 to an 8. The 8080 was improved, so the digit got pushed to the left. 8085 was even better, so a digit got upped. They then needed a 6 from 16 in there, so 8086. 8088 because they were running out of numbers, and then they added a digit to up the line. It's really twisted
They couldn't make a deal with DR because (IIRC) the CEO of DR went golfing instead of coming to the meeting.
Bill Gates walks in with this "QDOS" purchased from Seattle Computer Systems, a clone of CP/M, and sells it to them.
The 4004 was designed as a calculator processor, and I can go right down the line to the Pentium 4 or Athlon 64 in your box today:
4004
8008
8080
8085
8086 + 8087
8088 + 8087
80186/8 + 80187
80286 + 80287
80386DX/SX + 80385 (DX only), 80387DX/SX
80486DX/SX
Pentium, K5, WinChip1/2
Pentium Pro, K6
Pentium II
Pentium III, K7 (Athlon), K8 (Athlon 64, Opteron) WinChip4 (VIA Cyrix III)
Pentium M
Pentium 4
Worn out? My keyboard is a Model M, and it was probably pulled from a PS/2 (seeing as it has a PS/2 keyboard connector...)
Why would my keyboard be worn out?
Let's do an overview here:
4004 - first uP
8008 - Intel's first 8-bit uP
8080 - Other 8-bit uP
8085 - CMOS 8080
8086 - Intel's first 16-bit uP
8087 - Math coprocessor for 8086/8
8088 - 8086 with 8-bit bus, meant it could be used with 8080/8085 chipset
80186/8 - Adds many features to 86/88
80187 - 8087 with new package for 186/8
80286 - Adds protected mode
80287 - Math coP for 286
80385 - Cache controller
80386DX - 32-bit uP
80386SX - DX with 16-bit bus, can be considered 80388
80387 - Math coP for 386 (DX and SX versions)
80486DX - Improved 80386DX, 80385, on-board cache (8 or 16k), 80387
80486SX - Minus the improved 80387
80487SX - 80486DX that disables the already present SX chip
Pentium - Even more integrated chip, 64-bit bus, 32-bit internal
Pentium Pro/II/III/M, AMD K6/K7 - RISC internally, later versions have SIMD instructions
Pentium 4 - Adds SMT, will add 64-bit
AMD K8 - Adds 64-bit in all but one version
Performance is increased from 4004 to 4040 and 8008, 8008 to 8080, 8080 to 8085, 8085 to 8086 and 8088, 8086/8 to 80186/8, 8018x to 286, 286 and 386 to 486, 486, Pentium, PPro to P2, P2 to P3, P3 to PM. I didn't include AMD CPUs in that part.
You know the rest of that? It's stolen from bash.org, and the rest reads:
;-).
Well, you can still get one from a strange country
(this was an IRC conversation, and it was the reply to the previous line)
Also, you don't realize the translucent shimmering text is already possible as early as Word 2000, and it might even be in Word 97. WordArt can be translucent, and regular text can be shimmering (it's in text effects or something on the Font dialog).
My first computer was an original revision //c.
My first PC was an IBM PS/1 (PCjr was it's predecessor, Aptiva was it's successor), with 1MB RAM, a 386SX/16 (I think), and a 40MB hard drive. From what I've seen, I think it was a Canadian model, even though I'm in the US (my grandmother got it on closeout from Sun Electronics, an old bargain-basement electronics chain - H.H. Gregg is pretty much the same thing). It ran DOS 4.0 (I forget whose, but I remember IBM copyrights, so probably PC-DOS), and had the 4-Quad screen. We never used the modem, and (this one's a computer stupidity) had to fight the mouse because she threw away the ring that held the ball in, thinking it was packing material. We tried and tried to get a new mouse, but all we'd find was PS/2 (no PS/2 port) and serial (no serial port either). Turns out, it was an AT mouse - we needed a AT-PS/2 keyboard converter like what's on my older tower now (I'm using a PS/2 Model M, and it's an AT tower).
40MB was hardly enough. We were filling it quickly, and we weren't even power users! (my parents told me to not touch BASICA.COM, because I might erase files - if I wanted to mess about with BASIC, I had to grab one of my Apple IIs)
VGA Sharks? I think that's what you're talking about - I've still got a shareware CD volume with that on it.
BTW, on 486s, DX MEANS FPU.
The 286 was designed because Intel had this great 32-bit processor that added all these features, but it was too far ahead of it's time, and they couldn't release it (yet, more on that later). It included some of the most important parts of that processor. Since the design was newer, it also fixed some bugs with the 32-bit CPU's design, and had better performance.
Fast forward a few years, and a need for a 32-bit CPU appears. Intel calls that old CPU that was designed years ago, and that the 286 was based on, the 386.
The 286 was designed AFTER the 386 - that's part of the reason why a Harris 286/25 can give an AMD 386DX/40 a run for it's money (the AMD chip is identical to the Intel chip, it's just faster and cheaper - the 386 was the last all-Intel-design AMD chip).
BTW, it doesn't really require 64MB RAM and a 233MHz Pentium II - look at this thread - one 20MHz Pentium I with 32MB RAM, and one 63MHz Pentium Overdrive with 18MB RAM(!)
Anyone willing to try my ideas in that thread (run on a 5x86, and run on Bochs on a 386 STUFFED with RAM)?
Umm... you know what NT, as in Windows NT, really stands for? Hint: it's not "New Technology". It's N Ten, N10, the code name for the i860, the first processor NT was designed for.
NT WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR THE i860 - MICROSOFT DID NOT KILL IT! What killed it was the release date being pushed back, and MS having to release SOMETHING to go up against OS/2, so they ported NT to the x86, and the rest is history.
Give up Slashdot if you use Dillo - doesn't render right.
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http://wp.netscape.com/communicator/aolinstant/
Netscape 4.x has an AIM client built in, so you might consider that on Windows 3.1. For browsing, I'd suggest Opera 3.62 for surfing, and Internet Explorer 5.0 16-bit (doesn't have the security holes that the 32-bit version does) for when a page doesn't render in Opera (likely, as it's an old version) or Netscrape (again, likely).
What OS is he running?
If he's got @ least 24MB RAM and Windows 95, go for Opera 7.50, but only run one tab at a time.
If he's got Win/WinNT 3.x, go for Opera 3.62 Win16. Don't worry about RAM - that version is VERY lightweight...
It must be approved. D-Link has gotten Centrino approval, for example, on a future card.
It is the i855, bt I think you can get your chipset Centrino approved, too.
Here are the lines:
INTEL:
SERVER:
Itanium (High-end)
Xeon (Low-end)
DESKTOP:
Pentium 4 EE (High-end)
Pentium 4 (Mid-end)
Celeron (Low-end)
MOBILE:
Pentium M (high-end) (Centrino CPU)
Mobille Pentium 4, Pentium 4-M (mid-end, soon to be phased out in favor of Pentium M)
Celeron (low-end, soon to be phased out in favor of Celeron M), Celeron M (low-end)
AMD:
SERVER:
Opteron (high-end)
Athlon MP (low-end, soon to be phased out in favor of Opteron)
DESKTOP:
Athlon 64 FX (high-end)
Athlon 64 (mid-end)
Athlon XP (low-end)
Duron (bottom-end)
Semptron (or whatever the heck it is, bottom-end, replacing Duron)
MOBILE:
Athlon 64 (high-end)
Athlon XP (low-end)
Ypu knw it's time to upgrade when people are making jokes about still being able to use a machine six times as fast as yours...
Mine is a 233MHz Pentium MMX. I play UT:GOTY on it. (OK, I usually borrow the 2.0GHz Celery for that, but...)
I run a P233MMX as my primary box.
;-)
(I'm awaiting a box from my school to hit the dumpster, and then I'm adding hard drives
Umm... why didn't you link to Toy Story?
Short Circuit's plot description:
Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.
EXPERIMENTAL ROBOTS, NOT TOYS.
Toy Story, on the other hand, involves this "Sid" that mods his (sentient) toys (and a couple he found, who are the main characters), and they decide to show themselves, and attack him.