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Should Pentium II/III Systems Have a Forum?

Should Pentium II/III systems have their own forum?

  • Yes

    Votes: 14 66.7%

  • No

    Votes: 6 28.6%

  • Unsure

    Votes: 1 4.8%
  • Total voters
    21
  • Poll closed .
ajacocks

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Several times, folks have asked if more modern PC systems should have their own forum. Here is your chance to vote on that.

We’ll take the results into consideration when making a decision.

Thanks!
- Alex
 
ajacocks said:
The Pentium II is a Pentium Pro gen 2. :) They are both P6 microarchitecture.
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Of course, we open up a really dangerous can of worms here. An argument could be made that the P6 architecture wasn't *really* succeeded (if you don't count that whole NetBurst debacle) until Nehalem came out in 2008. ;)
 
I worked with Pentium 1 and Pentium Pro systems at the same time 25 years ago. There is no reason they cant exist in the same sub-forum.
 
Actually, do it Subforum. The vast number of PC's in the world disproportionately represent VC in general (even macs!), so if we want to break PC's down by CPU, break the conversations up into subforums.

Xenforo has the ability to hide subforums from the main list by default so it doesn't clutter up the view for the rest of us. All you see is under the main subforum title is a small "Sub-forums ▼" and it drops down the subforum list.

Code: 
-Later PC's
--386
--486
--Pentium
--Pentium II
--Pentium III
--Pentium 4
--Cyrix, VIA and Everything Else

That will hold everyone over until people start complaining that the CORE series isn't represented in 5 to 10 years. ;)

If you think that's too much effort, I go back to saying "no."

Edited: Chuck wanted to be all fancy-schmancy pants, so I edited the list to include "Everything Else"
 
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NeXT said:
Code:
Code: 
-Later PC's
--386
--486
--Pentium
--Pentium II
--Pentium III
--Pentium 4
--Cyrix, VIA and Everything Else
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OOOOH I would love a Cyrix area! How about RISC based x86, like my Rise Idragon? Maybe a General RISC area as well?
 
Might be an option to just expand the Pentium section to Pentium and newer? I have been talking about pentium pro too in that section. I defenitely agree on PII/III and also 4 are getting vintage too. But to call them historic game changers is a different discussion I think. I prefer to see all these Pentium and newer machines in one section. Just because I don't want to miss out the topics because they get scattered over too many sections. For me PC, 286, 386 and 486 would fit in one category too. But aks 100 people you get 100 ideas...
 
Everything up to and including P4 is definitely vintage now. The first P4's are about as old as the Amiga was in the mid 2000's, so it seems rather hypocritical not to include it.

They're also rather obsolete in comparison to later Core2 chips, that largely have the same hardware and software compatibility. There is literally 0 reasons to run a P4 when a Core2 can do the job much better with exactly the same hardware and software support. Maybe 9x would struggle on a Core2, but that was obsolete by the introduction of them anyway.
 
Fully agree, but I said that already. Looking at the forums, this does not make sense anyway:

PCs and Clones
Later PCs
Pentium (First generation)

Why is "Pentium" even there? It's complelety redundant due to "Later PCs". Could be:

PCs and Clones (8088/86 only)
Later PCs (no x64)

e.g. instead and all would be covered.
 
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