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Yes, but I'd rather just find some lines in the Linux Kernel to change than drill 2 holes in my roof, & go up into the attic for an hour trying to get a cable to my computer.
 
atari2600a said:
*Deep breath* Please don't say that anymore Terry Yager. No offence, but it's disturbing, & makes you sound like a sexual predator or something...
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I dunno, I used to tell my kidz that all the time...I still threaten my son (who, BTW, livez here with me).

--T
 
well I'm going to drag my nails against the blackboard if y'all don't quit it right now!

"Me too! I started using a Pentium in 2000, after the last surviving local BBS went down because the Galacticom Software didn't survive the Y2K thing, so I hadda start paying for my Internet access for the first time since 1991 and I needed a little more horsepower."

I just wanted to play around with VStudio. Maybe the 486 would have been alright, but come to think of it maybe that thing upped and died!
 
OK that's enough out of all of you. We're all adults here, lets act like it. This thread can be locked, but lets not make it come to that.....

-VK
 
Great news! My father suprised me today w/ a dual-core(Socket-370 & Slot-1) mobo! (All I asked for was a slocket adapter!) Tommorrow (well, today, really...), once I can get my hands on some rubbing alcohol, I'm gonna put the celeron & heatsync that Alexkerhead gave me on it, & then try to find some documentation for it! (All I got was the mobo, a PIII 550MHz Katmai, a recept, & the anti-static-bag-thing; no documentation or drivers)

(DAMN, having a computer process CD audio through the CPU & sound card instead of through the drive's hardware makes a BIG difference!)
 
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And I guess my Pentium III 1000 GHz w/512MB of RAM is a slow machine too, even though it can run Unreal II/Postal 2 at full frame rate.....lol....

When I started muddling with computers at the age of 19 (2006ish), I started out with a 386 SX, and the first thing I did to that thing, swap in a freebie 486 DX-33 system board from a ZEOS machine. I used that comptuer for six months for everything from internet surfing to games to even NES Emulation (this 486 was a real stretch, no VLB, no upgradable L2 Cache, no SVGA, no high speed serial, it was one of the early ones), then I got an IBM PC-330 100DX4 that I used for almost 2 years as my main machine, and overlapping those two years, I assembed what became the GEM that I have now, which was my first Pentium box, only a mere 120MHz in the beginning, and since 2002, I've built the GEM up from a 386/20 Mhz full size AT clone to a Pentium III Micro ATX machine in a heavily modified case, and now, 5 years after an old friend got a brand new Compaq Presario 7000 933 Mhz Pentium III, my 1 GIGAHERTZ PIII is considered slow, lol, you coulda' fooled me.

I just built a 486 DX4 that's sitting on my desk next to me right now, that thing runs Windows For Workgroups 3.11 and DOS 6.22 and is every bit as fast as the PIII I have. It's all about how you tweak the hardware and software, not how much power it has.
 
Mad-Mike said:
And I guess my Pentium III 1000 GHz w/512MB of RAM is a slow machine too, even though it can run Unreal II/Postal 2 at full frame rate.....lol....
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Would you consider selling your 1000 *GHz* P3?
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Cheers,

80sFreak

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Yeah, that would be roughly 250 times the highest known clock frequencies of today's CPUs. Probably it would melt down instantly if it was even possible to achieve.
 
I doubt anything outside of an R&D lab can come anywhere remotly close to 1THz. Even then I bet its pretty unstable.....

-VK
 
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