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Life at 800mHz 800 MILLI Hertz (0.8 Hz)! Now that is slow. <grin> Actually 800 MHz is slow by today's standards, but it's a lot faster than the 4 MHz Z80 tha
by simonblack 5y ago
Life at 800mHz
800 MILLI Hertz (0.8 Hz)! Now that is slow. <grin>
Actually 800 MHz is slow by today's standards, but it's a lot faster than the 4 MHz Z80 that my first computer used.
- tagoregrtst 5y agoI saw that! I believe 0.8 Hz would be about par with the earliest electronic relay machines. So (assuming it doesn't take 10MW), just about useful to compute admiralty tables. Like you, I was a bit disappointed when I realized that I wasn't about to read some half practical computing at 800mHz
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- masklinn 5y agoIt’s not even necessarily that low depending on the standards you apply / references you use, lots of chips have base clocks which are quite low especially for low-power CPUs or SoC. For instance the Atom x6200FE has a 1GHz base clock. According to its spec sheet it can’t even burst (while the higher-rated X6211E has a 1.2GHz base clock and can burst to 3). Your problem’s more likely to be that it’s an Atom from 2008 (which implies lots of performance-related concerns, like being pre bay-trail and thus in-order), than it being 800 base / 1.3 burst.