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by bluedino 7mo ago
The worst part about the 486 name was all the varieties, an uninformed consumer could get a real lemon. The author links to an example: https://dfarq.homeip.net/ibm-486slc2-cpu-when-a-clone-isnt-a... You then had the 486 DL
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by bluedino 7mo ago
A friend of mine bought a Pentium 60MHz from a local computer store, they originally wanted $10,000 for it, but he got it for $4,000. It wasn't much more than a year later that I was able to get a Pentium 100MHz for $2000. It's am
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by bluedino 7mo ago
> The original Pentium-branded CPU topped out at 200 MHz in the end, and the Pentium MMX-branded CPU reached 233 MHz. There was a mobile 266MHz Pentium MMX, Tillamook And it appears there was a 300MHz version according to Wikipedia.
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by bluedino 7mo ago
BeOS was released in October 1995, and Windows 95 was able to play two videos (or more) at one time, with audio from both.
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by bluedino 7mo ago
It was basically the same thing. That's my point.
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by bluedino 7mo ago
Now do Intel's HBM/CPU Max
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by bluedino 7mo ago
Imagine when edit.com came out and QBASIC used it for the editor. You lost two more lines of valuable code space! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_Editor#/media/File%3AMS...
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by bluedino 7mo ago
I'm still waiting for a display that I can simply dock my iPhone into, and use it exactly like an iMac. Ideally it would be a 40-50 inch 4/5K screen that doubles as a desk of some sorts, but I'll take the monitor/iMac fo
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by bluedino 7mo ago
Would love a technical explanation of how all that stuff worked by someone who did that kind of stuff in those days. In the old days I personally never saw anything bigger than a four line BBS. But I remember reading about that one in share
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by bluedino 7mo ago
A couple Facebook Marketplace tabs that have videos of the item for sale would absolutely crush my 2017 MacBook Pro. My M1 Air would slow down a little, but was still usable doing the same thing. And they both had 8GB of memory.
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by bluedino 7mo ago
I wrote 99% of a large PHP app on an six year old laptop with a single 17" LCD. Meanwhile, at my desk, I had a Dell workstation with 3 monitors at the time, but it was easier to squirrel away in a corner somewhere, undisturbed. After a
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by bluedino 7mo ago
I always wanted to like DVD-RW and CD-RW. But I just couldn't. Cost. A couple dollars per disc, versus a couple pennies per disc for the one-time use. Easily scratched. They were slow. You could use a Syquest or Iomega 1GB drive, boot
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by bluedino 7mo ago
Your grandma doesn't give you a $10 check for your birthday in Europe? What about manufacturer rebates?
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by bluedino 7mo ago
Visioneer paperport! I wonder if you can use a webcam?
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by bluedino 7mo ago
> Arent these basically minimum wage jobs? I mean throw a few dollars an hour on top of that, but there are plenty of jobs like this. Getting rid of them isn't a good thing. Entry-level jobs are important.
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by bluedino 7mo ago
> I'm curious if anyone is going more rogue with their solution and using off-prem storage at a friend's house. Have been doing this for 25 years. If you have asymmetrical connections it's easiest to do the initial backup
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by bluedino 8mo ago
At least when the USA did it they only had 75-100 million citizens doing the polluting.
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by bluedino 8mo ago
Agree on the Touch ID. Love that feature for passwords etc. Not terribly happy about the USB 2.0 port as well
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by bluedino 8mo ago
All the compute providers turn that off anyway.
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by bluedino 8mo ago
Each version has had its share of quirks. Other than the dumbing down of the UI and that kind of stuff, Tahoe seems to run fine. Safari seems to have more bugs than usual, though.
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by bluedino 8mo ago
Nope. As I said, you can build two engines with different bore and stroke, but the same displacement, and they will make mirror images in the power curve. If it was such and advantage, wouldn't all performance engines have much longer
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Micron's $50B Boise chip expansion powers AI growth, adds 60k jobs(yahoo.com)
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by bluedino 8mo ago
If you could fit the same intake manifold, cylinder head, and camshaft on them. There's things other than displacement that determine the shape of the torque curve. Compare a Suzuki G13B 1300 vs a Suzuki Hayabusa 1300 for example.
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by bluedino 8mo ago
That sounds fantastic but it means nothing in practice. It's like something you'd hear in a "Engineering Explained" video, but with no real-world application. There's so much more that goes into an engine that it do
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by bluedino 8mo ago
Ford F150 buyers quickly came around to the turbo V6 instead of the V8. I wonder if the Ram buyers will as well.
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by bluedino 8mo ago
> Inline-sixes also tend to have more low-end torque as their balanced design allows for a longer stroke, which promotes low-rev performance. Automotive myths that won't die. 'Stroke' doesn't make more low end power t
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by bluedino 8mo ago
It's like they mastered Sim City and applied it to real life
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by bluedino 8mo ago
> * Memory add-on for bare metal: 575% (effective immediately) > It feels like memory add-on is intentionally set high to discourage customers from adding more memory. List price on Dell's website for servers is about $100/G
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by bluedino 8mo ago
We had a Python "vulnerability" that only existed on 32-bit platforms, which we don't use in our environment, but do you think we could get the cyber team to understand that? Nope.
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by bluedino 8mo ago
Like the printers that won't do prints of money that's money-size

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