[Cialug] Fast 486's and jumbo shrimp (was: Which Distro is best?)

[Tim Wilson]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 5:06 PM, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com>
wrote:

> Nathan Stien wrote:
>
>  On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley <
>> daniel.ramaley at drake.edu <mailto:daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>    Wasn't the slowest 486 running at 25 MHz? 8 sounds a bit slow. How
>>    fast
>>    did Intel go with the 486? I know the 66 MHz version was quite popular
>>    for awhile. I seem to (vaguely) remember some late-model 486's at 75
>>    and 100 MHz. AMD made a 486 running at 133 MHz (i still have one
>>    running in a cardboard box as my firewall). I don't know about any
>>    faster than that though.
>>
>>
>> I find the idea of 133 MHz 486's amusing, mainly because my first pentium
>> ran at a blistering 60 MHz.  ~1995, IIRC.
>>
> We had one of the first commercially available Pentiums - an AST P-90,
> which was a complete lemon. It seemed significantly slower than the
> 486-100's we were running at the time.


I don't know if it was accurate or not, but I heard that the Pentium had to
switch to compatibility mode to run "older" software.  This switch made the
processor slower than 486 processors of the day.

Last fall I took the case for that one out and shot it full of holes at the
> shooting range. I can't tell you how satisfying it was to put a couple of
> .50 BMG holes through that box.
>
> My first PC I purpose-built had an AMD 486-100, which was pretty much the
> fastest processor I could get at the time. It was a pretty good machine
> (despite the SiS chipset), lasted me 3 or 4 years as a workstation, then
> another couple of years as a server.


IIRC, the AMD 486-100 was slower (as in throughput) than the Intel 486
DX4-100.



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Tim
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