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I remember writing a cyberpunk story as a kid, in which everyone was rocking badass 786s.
by specproc 6mo ago
I remember writing a cyberpunk story as a kid, in which everyone was rocking badass 786s.
- pavlov 6mo agoThe Pentium III does sound like a good chip choice for a retro cyberpunk story. Like they said in “The Matrix”, 1999 was the peak of human civilization. (586 became Pentium, so 686 would be the Pentium Pro/II microarchitecture.)
- thatjoeoverthr 6mo agoIIRC III was also 6th gen microarchitecture. Pentium IV was the 7th.
- electrosphere 6mo agoI remember 1999/2000-ish I had both a Pentium III/Intel motherboard and Athlon PC. The Pentium III system was rock solid, and performed fantasic. Even the CPU and motherboard looked amazing. The Athlon was solid but less reliable, various reboots and glitches. I kind have always had a preference for Intel since then.
- Delk 6mo agoA lot of that probably came down to the motherboard chipset. IIRC Intel made their own chipsets for the Pentium III and they were good and reliable. Athlons were coupled with chipsets from VIA and whatnot. Some of those chipsets were fine and others were less reliable or compatible. The quality of the drivers for each chipset may also have mattered.
- bitwize 6mo agoP6 chip. Triple the speed of the Pentium. RISC architecture is gonna change everything.
- mtzaldo 6mo agoYou can watch Serial Experiments Lain. It is an anime from 1998.
- twoodfin 6mo agoThe cartridge-style packaging of the Pentium II/III’s was also peak for the lineup. My favorite PC I ever built was a dual-CPU Tyan motherboard that eventually held two screaming fast Coppermines. Needed a university copy of Windows 2000 to really make them sing—the Windows 95 series never supported SMP—and it was glorious.
- vikingerik 6mo agoNot just you: the Tom Swift novels reboot in the 1990s had Tom once bragging about "the latest seven-eighty-six processor."
- coldpie 6mo ago1974: Intel 8080 1978: Intel 8086 1982: Intel 80286 1985: Intel 80386 1990: Intel 8010386 1995: Intel 801040386 2005: Intel 80107045386 2025: Intel 8.010207659386e12
- geocrasher 6mo agoI recall as a teen wondering if the 486 was so good, how amazing a 1086 was going to be someday :D
- weirdmantis69 6mo agoSadly still in the far future