<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 5:06 PM, David Champion <<a href="mailto:dchampion@visionary.com">dchampion@visionary.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Nathan Stien wrote:<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley <<a href="mailto:daniel.ramaley@drake.edu" target="_blank">daniel.ramaley@drake.edu</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:daniel.ramaley@drake.edu" target="_blank">daniel.ramaley@drake.edu</a>>> wrote:<br>
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Wasn't the slowest 486 running at 25 MHz? 8 sounds a bit slow. How<br>
fast<br>
did Intel go with the 486? I know the 66 MHz version was quite popular<br>
for awhile. I seem to (vaguely) remember some late-model 486's at 75<br>
and 100 MHz. AMD made a 486 running at 133 MHz (i still have one<br>
running in a cardboard box as my firewall). I don't know about any<br>
faster than that though.<br>
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I find the idea of 133 MHz 486's amusing, mainly because my first pentium ran at a blistering 60 MHz. ~1995, IIRC.<br>
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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.</blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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.<br>
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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.</blockquote>
<div><br>IIRC, the AMD 486-100 was slower (as in throughput) than the Intel 486 DX4-100. <br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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-dc<br>
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