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Post by Tom Maneiro on Feb 24, 2008 13:22:57 GMT -5
Time for an update! (since this thread has been quite dead recently)
No interesting experiments were done with the lil' Marika (but it still boot, don't worry...). Instead, i will present today a clip show of random experiments on the lab and the workbench... - Booting Asumi (notice the "custom-fit audio output", and the custom POST logo):  - Everything is custom here, even the machine serial! (WARNING: modding your serial may be illegal in certain states)  - Doin' some MPEG with Asumi. No soundcard, no MMX, and NO 2D ACCELERATOR NEEDED! Just raw CPU power, baby! Powered by an ol' Pentium 133...  Player was "mtv" (do not confuse with that MTV), included with my OpenLinux 2.4 CD. It's pretty slow if you don't have MMX, and by using the system speaker as a soundcard, playback speed suffer even more, but at least it can achieve 10-12 FPS for VCD media... Oh, mtv is SHAREWARE, something extremely rare to see in Linux world (although it was fairly common on late '90s) A close-up: (for some reason, mtv does not stretch the image to fill the screen when you're on fullscreen mode) * Puffy AmiYumi - Boogie-Woogie N°5 - "Custom-fit" Audio plug: built with an AudioCD cable (plugged to the speaker-out on motherboard), and a jack ripped from an old discman. On the software side, you need to patch your 2.2 kernel with PCSP, that creates a really basic soundcard. It sounds awful, but it's better than nothing   - Current walpaper: official Twin Spica manga wallpaper on KDE 1.0. Both items are now really ancient today   - Night shot of the stack:  BONUS SHOTS!- Anyone remembers Kodak's PhotoCD? Nobody? Hell, most photo print shops offered your photos on a PhotoCD! But today it's all JPEG... I found a stack of old PhotoCD sampler discs: they include a viewer for Win31, and 16 sample pictures on PhotoCD format. Here is such software running on a old 486 IBM ValuePoint box on the lab:  (BTW, that machine is using a Cyrix 4x86 DX4, at 80MHz, but the BIOS says 100 MHz!) I've tested that sampler software on Marika, and is not painfully slow (indeed, it's faster than JPEG decoding!), but you will want a lot of RAM for better results. - I call this piece "Asumi's Revenge": a small crime in the name of the art ;D  You only need a bunch of old boxes, a floppy, a random wallpaper of your favorite anime/manga, and being really bored on a Friday night, stuck in a university with its Internet access being down     - Again, you should not be watching anime on the university... "Marionette", "Master circuit" and "cloning" surely will NOT be the answers in the next Information Management 202 quiz   And now, for put an ending on this clip show, it's time for... THE HORROR TALE OF THE WEEK!TM
(sponsored by NCR ATMs and a unnamed Spanish-owned Venezuelan bank)This looks like any ordinary ATM... This one is on our university, and was robbed two years ago. Now the bank is slowly repairing it for put it back on service (and to be robbed AGAIN?), but someone forgot to read the service manual completely...  ("literal" translation of the Spanish: "MSTER PASSWORD CHANGED")Yup, that's a long security code... Is that the code that allows you to remap the $5 bill cart to the $50 cart? Unfortunately, there are no service manuals for NCR ATMs on the net ( unlike some other ATMs), so this ATM will remain pretty safe. Anyway, here in Venezuela, the only hacking tool that you need for An ATM is a welding torch (aka "blue wrench") (BTW: i've pressed ENTER there, but nothing happened!)Final shot: There was an age where Internet didn't came in a floppy, but in a BOX!
  Anyone remember Mosaic? That was loooong before the titanic Firefox, the evil IE, and the (recently killed) Netscape. Oh, that box was still sealed, and since it was... well... old, i would not break that seal, you know  At least thankfully, spam is not included Fun factoid: "Marika" is not only the name of that sickly girl on Twin Spica, or the name of my 386, is also the codename of Sony Ericsson' DB2020 CPU, used in most recent SE phones. In fact, all codenames on SE are girl names, some japanase, some swedish, and some from WTA tennis players. Other DB20xx CPUs are codenamed "Marita full" (DB2000) and "Marita compact" (DB2010) |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Mar 1, 2008 12:15:34 GMT -5
February 29th... Since it only occurs each 4 years, it's time to do some torture-testing on Marika, our beloved 386 box... Remember the early Office 97 experiment? It was sucessful, but ended in a tragic death of our 2-year-old Win95 setup (registry enlarged too much for our 6MB of RAM). I decided to do a second take on it. First things first: cleanup! I had 256MB free of 504MB, and a standard Office 97 install would require at least 150MB. Time for diet and exercise for Windows!: - You can free 10MB easily by deleting that bundled (and useless as of today) Compuserve installer: just locate and destroy all instances of cs3kit.exe (one in C:\Windows, the other in your Windows setup files directory, if you have a local one) - Another 10MB can be freed by deleting sound schemes and other useless Wintendo components (who wants MSN these days anyway?) - I also deleted/extracted some old backups, freeing some extra megs After some cleanup (and a couple Defrag sessions), i managed to free 30 MB (raising our free HD space to 285 MB) enough to install O97 without making our HD to explode ;D Then, i used Saki to rip a HD image of this "working and clean" setup (just in case, to prevent another "fat registy nuclear meltdown"). Now, to do the actual O97 setup... some advices: - Try to get an Office 97 CD with SP2 already integrated. I got mine from a old MSDN Subscriptions set that was lying around the DB lab here in the university. The reason is because applying the SPs after the install would be a major pain (not to mention that it would be a crash-prone process, leaving you with a mess of uninstallable, damaged files) - Whatever you do, DON'T DO A "Run from CD" install! Sure, it requires only 60 megs, but it will be painfully SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW (As a reference point, the installer required 15 minutes just to load from the CD, so you can imagine how slow would be to run, let's say, Word from a CD) - If you want to do a FULL install with all the fat crap (up to 300MB), get a second HD (SCSI if you can, or a BIOS/overlay solution for IDE GB-drives, or if you're in a worry, stick another 504MB drive) - The most single component that eats HD space are the help files (specially the VBA reference: up to 10MB per app!!!). Real men do not need help files, so you can safely skip them. (Anyway, i've installed the app help files, but not the VBA ones) - If you have ACDSee or any other image viewer/editor, you may want to skip PhotoEditor also. - M$ says that "you need a 386DX with 8MB of RAM to install Office 97". That's bullshit, it installs and runs fine on a 386SX with 6MB (Not sure if it will do with only 4 megs...) - Get ready for a LONG (read: BORING) setup... Mine took 15 minutes to load, 15 minutes customizing the setup, 30 minutes copying files, and another 30 minutes messing with the Registry. Ah, a reboot may be needed, so you can add another 10 minutes to the count. - My custom Office install just required 165MB... not bad at all Anyway, after the reboot, Marika booted fine (no meltdowns! Yeah! ;D ;D), and i was greeted by a new component that nobody uses today: the Office shortcut bar! (NO, it's no longer included with O2003 and 2007  ). Surprisingly enough, it barely eats resources, so if you can afford a extra minute added in your boot time, you can leave it there (and dock it to your titlebars). Despite the "386DX" requirement, all applications do run fine on a SX (with slowdowns, of course, but not so sluggish as you may be thinking). Experiment result: TOTAL SUCCESS!I will not post screenshots, because they're the same that i've published in the earlier O97 experiment.
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Mar 4, 2008 15:48:23 GMT -5
Technically it will react similar to a 386DX without a companion 387DX.
Since you have a 386SX and 387SX its similar to a 386DX...
Thats my take on the situation anyhow...
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Mar 5, 2008 17:22:05 GMT -5
Anyway, it just runs... And it's faster than that old 16-bit Office 4.2. The original plan was to install Office 95 (a perfect fit, and recommended by M$ for 'SX), but i was unable to find it anywhere (even in P2P!). So i take the O97 route.
I guess that the 387 is only useful on Excel (math stuff), and maybe, PowerPoint (slide transitions/animations).
Odd thing: Now that i have MSO97 there, i still have NO antivirus! And no plans to install one... Without USB ports and Internet access... why i would need one there? Also, in the unlikely case that a virus would reach Marika (floppy? CD-R picked from the trash?), it would run too slow, giving me time to shutdown the box before the infection...
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Mar 10, 2008 11:38:08 GMT -5
I've been investigating AV solutions for my 486sx/387sx hybrid. Forget NOD32...it requires a minimum of 128MB for the kernel to run. (tried it and managed to get it to run ONCE - no idea HOW I managed that, as it won't start now...) Some other options include "Zone Alarm" which has Kaspersky integrated...I'll test that later. And a FREE AV - ClamWin (based on the Linux Clamshell AV) www.clamwin.com/content/view/18/46/I'll let you guys know my findings... |
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Post by GiGaBiTe on Mar 14, 2008 3:17:28 GMT -5
Technically it will react similar to a 386DX without a companion 387DX. Since you have a 386SX and 387SX its similar to a 386DX... Thats my take on the situation anyhow... The thing that differentiates the 386SX and 386DX is that the SX has a 24 bit address bus and can only address up to 16 MB of RAM; while the 386DX has a 32 bit address bus and can theoretically address up to 4 GB of RAM if the memory controller / chipset supported it. The 386DX did not have a math co-processor integrated into it like the 486DX does which caused some confusion back in the day when that stuff was around in force. Unless the 387 is a full fledged 386DX with a math co-processor integrated in, then the computer is still limited to 16MB of RAM max. |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Apr 1, 2008 1:20:36 GMT -5
Vacations can be so boring... But not for much, so i will post some random ideas for crazy experiments. - Classes will resume next week, so the time to cleanup the dust of the workbench is near... I'm thinking in some crazy experiments to perform in the 386 (AKA "Marika torture testing, part n-1"). - I got a 20 gig, 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda. Looks nice (it even has a SeaShield(tm), known also as "PATENTED metal+foam plate covering teh PCB"), and it seems to be sane (was pulled from a working IBM box, and it's an "Original IBM part"), but since Seagates are banned for life from my systems (remember the Momentus fiasco), i have no use for it... maybe trading it for a Samsung? - RAGNAROK PROJECT status: H264 encoding complete, no meltdowns ;D Next stage: DVD authoring. - Hacking cellphones can be fun. Hacking CDMA cellphones IS NOT. Qualcomm, GO TO HELL!- My good'ol Daewoo TV just finally bite the dust after almost 9 years of service... Actually, only the speaker died, and since i didn't wanted to wait 1 week to get my TV serviced at the repair shop, i sold it and purchased a nice Samsung tube flatscreen (and "hacked" it just after popping it out-of-the-box. Thanks God for the service menus!). Now i can use my Genesis, my DVD player and my laptop TV-out at the same time! BTW: anyone knows about any CHEAP VGA-to-component (YPbPr) converter? And yes, Samsung TVs are totally kick-ass!! Unfortunately, neither Samsung nor LG no longer make TVs in Korea: mine came FROM CHINA!!! And all LG/Samsung TVs in the stores are chinese WTF!? - I'm also thinking into building my own Genesis flashcart: i plan to take apart certain no-name pirate cart that i no longer play, and put it one or two FlashROMs (recovered from dead motherboards). If i ever manage to build such thing, i will need to figure a way to flash those ROMs (FlashROM writing modules for our ALL-03 programmer? Or the always-dangerous Uniflash hotflashing?). I WANT TO TEST MY BEX CODE IN THE REAL THING!!!See ya later! |
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Post by Tulio Adriano on Apr 1, 2008 15:29:42 GMT -5
I'll go a bit of topic here, but since it is PC related I felt it is a good place talk about it... I've been assembling computers since 1997. My first PC was an intel 486 DX4, long time ago when intel processors used to blast AMD processors by far. On that time already there was the big discussion: How're they going to do now that pentium has the overheating problem? Processors frying eggs? The 100 MHz seemed too much for the silicon to handle... and then came some genius with the idea: Let's put a fan over the processor with a copper heat sink to help the fan cool down the system: GREAT! It worked!  Since then I've been assembling all kinds of computers and freaks in the IT world (btw, I am a programmer, I just assemble for fun, no profit): First strange thing I saw was Pentium II with it's cartridge slot for the processor. Well, great hardware yeah but why the hell they go with a cartridge? I like cartriges on my MD/Genesis... but the pc... well anyway... Then for some unexplainable reason all processors went beck to the sockets in the motherboard... hehe but things were speeding up realy fast at that time... 600, 800, 950 MHz... I promised myself I wouldn't buy anything for me untill that madness stopped... wtf you buy top processor one day and 2 months it is already outdated? The day finaly came when I was playing Albert Odyssey (saturn) all hooked up to the computer and TV for better sound... but the lightning struck close to my house and fried my Pentium II motherboard along with my SEGA SATURN! WAAAAAAAAHHH. Out of anger I went to the store and bought a Pentium 4 1.5 GHz. This also marked my definitive choice for ASUS motherboards (No video, no modem, nothing onboard if possible). Well very neat processor for the time (I always buy the top, so that it last long), and it lasted for 4 years until I sold it to my sister. Btw... my Sega Saturn wasn't fried... only the PSU... I got a new power suply from a friend with a dead laser unit and brought my Saturn back to life! Time to finish Albert Odyssey for good! At that time one thing started dragging my attention... the Coolers were getting sooooo big to deal with the heat... and installing them was getting tricky also... a lot of pressure required made me fear breaking the motherboards... hehe... With my P4 sold I had money to get myself a new computer to deal properly with the stuff I use to do at home (at the time... Music recording, Gens, MAME and Phantasy Star Online)... 2004 I got that small beauty: Pentium 4 HT 2.8 GHz. It was me once again at the edge of speed! DDR RAM 512 MB... Juicy power. That also marks my definitive choice for ASUS DELUXE motherboards. I never saw some product being so generous on cables and acessories. Neat, neat, neat. All my friends always made fun of me for my choice of products... I can call myself a fanboy, yeah. I only get Sega Videogames even though they're not the best in the market (With sega out of hardware market I am going with nintendo as a primarely videogame company on oposite of Sony and Microsoft), Monitors? Samsung always! Soundcards: Creative Labs! Videocards: Trident (on the past) and now GeForce. I always liked Quantum HD (even though they were very noisy) but ironically that's the only brand that failed (that I heard of, because it failed some months after I sold it). I have a Seagate HD that failed once but I dropped it on the ground by accident (hold with the foot) and it revived itself... never broke again. I am using Samsung HDs on and no problems so far. So back to subject all my friends always make fun of me for choosing intel processors. It is obvious that all Athlon XP line (and Athlon 64 later) was far far superiour than all sort of Pentiums around... but I have this brand of choice, what can I do? There I was with another intel processor... Still when assembling PCs for my friends I always recommend AMD... I installed a lot of Athlons and Semprons... Very fast. Boot up XP (full software installed such as all drivers + office 2003) in just 29 seconds after pushing power button. (motherboard is always asus, that also help). But OMG those coolers were a joke. They were getting too big... and the fans were as big as the chassis fan now, for the processor only! Not to mention that those chassis fans ware now really a need. But time passes, life goes around and my company offered me the choice of going to USA on a project. How could I reject that? With tears in my eyes I left my computers behind. First time I finally realize a dream I bought myself a laptop. Nice hardware, centrino processor 15.4" screen and costed only $379.00. That's something you can never buy in Brazil!!! I must say it was quite comfortable for a while... Wireless is such a bless! You can carry the computer to the living room when watching a movie, to the bathroom on an important conversation... you can carry your world wherever you go. But obviously nothing is perfect so I bought a mouse because using touchpads sucks for long times... then I bought a keyboard because it is much more comfortable to type... then a monitor to get higher resolution screen... then some external hard drives to carry on my legacy and extend the space available, then a Sound Blaster External to enjoy best music... and obvously a set of speakers to make the SB justice... a few USB Hubs because the laptop obviousy don't have that many USB ports available... WAIT! My Laptop is now a Desktop! That's crazy! I want to move it but there are so many things connected that just drives out any motivation of unplugging anything... That defeats the purpose... And on top of that... to use a Laptop as a desktop is not a good deal, since that is extremely underpowered compared to a PC... It is true that I have been doing nothing else than working on Pier Solar (Aka Tavern RPG) but having to restart because system is out of resources from time to time... and loosing the mobility of the laptop is quite sad... omg what to do??? But 2008 came and along with it my first tax return! Yeah! Good idea I made college last year so I could refund almost all of it on the tax filing! Yay! Time to get mysef serious computing powa! After doing a lot of research I finally found out the hardware I wanted... And just as the rest of it... it has to last for 4 years at least... so better get whatever is the best available! So as an intel fanboy I decided to go with Core2 Quad Extreme 3GHz. I also researched on the most recent Chipset and ended up with the X48 on an Asus P5E3 Premium! Powa is back. 4 GB Ram to start and 500 GB on SATA 3 Gb/s. I had to wait 3 days to get all the parts... (no I didnt wait 3 days for all of them... I got them in 3 sepparate days) being the last parts arriving yesterday, The HD and the Processor (Means with all parts there I coudln't do anything). The processor box was bigger than the floppy/card reader drive, bigger than the DVD-RW drive, almost bigger than the Video and Sound cards! Wo_Ot? I take it out and see a massive (no kidding) cooler that must be the most gigantic thing I ever seen in my life... I always like boxed processors because their coolers are usually the best for the processors but... does it need all of that??? The fan was so huge and the heat sink was almost as tall as the Empire State buiding... I really regret not having taken pictures of it with a pen on the side to compare the sizes... I am almost shocked with that thing so big... The heat sink has very sharp metal edges that resulted me 3 cuts on the hands... I can say I gave my blood into getting that processor installed. Anyway... I am just impressed with the absurd size of the cooler... it is around 15 cm wide and 15 cm tall, and it has a round shape... The fan is nice... (120 mm fan) transparent with blue leds on it... hehe I guess that's exclusive for Extreme series of processors. My OS of choice had to be Windows XP x64 because the regular 32bit XP will not work with 4 GB of Physical RAM... it will recognize only 3 GB. With 64 bit XP I can have up to 128 GB ram without any problem... ans since I plan to NEVER install Windows Vista... hehe here we go! Now I have a long week updating windows, drivers, and installing all my software... That'll take a while... Ok... enough of this nostalgic cooler odyssey. Tom Maneiro: I had one Samsung Flat Screen TV when I lived in Brazil... I moved here and I was still paying for it (for 10 months) but the little I could stay with it was as good as it could be! Samsung really rox on their products, especially video products. About the flash cart: Please research the most that you can. There is some good discussion about a model on spritesmind.net: www.spritesmind.net/_GenDev//forum/viewtopic.php?t=324&sid=60bccb0dcdd72726e68a7203c9687941You should take a look. I myself own a Tototek 32Mbit cart which is enough for most of my needs, except for Pier Solar since the game is growing quite fast and might exceed the 32 Mbits soon. Seeya! |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Apr 1, 2008 20:29:50 GMT -5
Nice story! And it seems that you really hate fancoolers I did installed one on my 386 box, but because of the extreme heat that was in my room before i got A/C (living in Puerto Ordaz without at least a decent fan is suicide), not because the box really required one... Current CPUs run so hot, that if Intel had continued with the Pentium 4 architecture, in 10 years it would run at the temperature of the surface of the sun! Core architecture was made keeping this in mind: run cooler, yet run fast. However, putting 4 cores in the same chip, and running them at 2.5GHz pretty much kills the "coolness" factor (although we get more MIPs per watt) And about the flashcart: FPGAs and the Tototek cart are totally out of the scope (and of my pocket ). The idea is to recycle the lot of flashROMs that i have pulled from dead motherboards (and since they were used to hold BIOS code, i think that they're NOR, perfect for flashcarts). The FlashROMs are betweeh 64K and 256K, and my plan is to build a 1MB cart (it's for homebrew, after all). Wish me luck ;D |
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Post by Tulio Adriano on Apr 2, 2008 10:27:23 GMT -5
I was building myself a SMS cart long ago, using a RAM chip powered by a CR2032, but I never found all needed components and the project died... The tototek cart I got cost me almost noting... they were cheaper when I got it (2006) and I used some Paypal money I got long ago when a guy from Germany (Arakon) bought some pirate cartridges from Brazil... He wanted carts with EPROMS (those with the window in the upper side) to use in his SegaCD multibios project... Since it was so hard to transfer the money he paid me on paypal... (2001) and 5 years later I used the money to get the Tototek 32 MBit cart, wich has been serving me well but......... It uses LPT1 as the data interface (and USB for power) but guess what? New motherboards don't come with COM or LPT ports anymore... geez... good thing that my Fiancée has a computer she bought in the end of 2006 with LPT port... otherwise I'd have to buy some crazy adapter... BTW I have been thinking what to name my PC... hehe maybe I'll name it as Shadow... it is fast like Sonic but it's black color. Seeya |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Apr 2, 2008 17:34:12 GMT -5
My (not-so) old HP Compaq nx9010 laptop STILL includes a LPT port (and it's pretty crowded by a Acer ScanPrisa 640P scanner and one of the best printers ever built: Canon BJC-250). Yes, it's a shame, but now everything is USB. Fortunately, i have plenity of working LPT ports out there Those crazy adapters not always work, and they tend to use crappy drivers that cause even more troubles. But my flash cart will require a external ROM programmer (due to the lack of experience and parts), and my two choices are... - A Hi-Lo Systems ALL-03 universal programmer that we have here in the university. Unfortunately, i only have EEPROM writing modules, not FlashROM. Joining a bunch of 64K EEPROMs in a small Genesis cart shell is not going to be fun - Hotflashing with UniFlash and a motherboard flash socket: Since those FlashROMs were pulled from motherboards, it should work. It's dangerous, i know, but we also have a shitload of PCCHIPS motherboards to fry |
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Post by Tiido on Apr 7, 2008 11:40:01 GMT -5
You could build one such thing : www.hot.ee/tmeeco/DWNLOADS/MPCPSHIT.RARI made it and use it extensively for my MD dev... can read/burn (Flash)(E(P(ROM))s and (P)SRAMs. With some extra software, EEPROMs are possible too. That thing is basically a stupid LPT expander. 24 outputs, 24 programmable i/o lines.   I have a 386 too that should need some tuning AST bravo something Intel 386SX-25 (soldered onboard) + Cyrix 387-33 6MB of 70ns DRAMs (6x 30pin SIMMs) Paradise VGA, with 256KB VRAM 2x 112MB HDDs, both Quantum AFAIK Com3 EtherLink III 10mbps LAN card Creative Vibra 16 sound card (I have plenty of these) 3.5" FDD drive... I had one 5.25" drive but it didn't work So, what to do with it ? |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Apr 7, 2008 16:23:25 GMT -5
I've checked the EEPROMs in my collection: ALL are OTP EPROMs, not FlashROMs: - two Atmel AT27C256R (32Kx8) - one Macronix MX27C1000PC-15 (128Kx8) - a couple of no-name ICs (one looks like a rebranded MX27C1000, and the other could be just a MaskROM) - and a trio of plain old 27C256 EPROMs (with those neat cute windows for UV erasers) So... i'm out of luck OTP EPROMs cannot be overwritten. Anyway, i can find some REAL FlashROMs out there (28Fxxxx and family), so watch this space (let's hope that these suckers do work at 5 volts...) And about your 386: overclock it first! 25MHz is so 1985... ;D I also have a spare Vibra16 here, but i'm happy with my AWE64  |
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Post by GiGaBiTe on Apr 8, 2008 1:59:24 GMT -5
Slotted processors were a stopgap measure that Intel used to solve a problem with not being able to get the L2 cache on the same die as the CPU. Intel had terrible problems with yields on the wafers when trying to integrate cache on the CPU, and it became incredibly expensive, so they moved outside the CPU die.
The cache on slotted processors in on a dedicated "backside bus" that either runs at full or half speed of the processor. If you pull the heatsink off a Pentium II or early Pentium III, you will see the external cache chips.
Pentium Pro CPUs also used this technique, which is why they were so big. A Pentium Pro is essentially a Pentium II without the MMX instructions, though it proved to be very unpopular and had a somewhat short lifespan.
On later Pentium III and Celeron slotted processors, Intel had fixed the problem and just started using the Socket 370 FCPGA chips soldered into an adapter to work in the SECC2 slots.
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Apr 25, 2008 17:58:59 GMT -5
A friend also had a P800 - it was a Slot1 cart, but the processor already had the cache integrated into the CPU die, so it looked... odd? This variant of PIIIs is very rare to see today. ---- Now, some old and random shots from the workbench: Installing Office 97 in Marika, 2nd edition: - Defrag first! I liked very much the Win9x defrag proggy... watching in real-time how every single cluster gets reordered. In WinXP you only get a dull progressbar.  - Stack photos during the install: Office 97 setup in the main monitor, Excel Saga on TV... Fridays are good for doing experiments ;D   - Post-install:   Anyone out there do clean their keyboards? I do:  Try to do this with a brand-new Lenovo/HP stock keyboard.... BONUS SHOTS!- For all Ubuntu haters out there...  - Why TVs don't allow you to fine-tune your CRT settings? You have to struggle to find your TV set service codes and manuals... My Admiral K1407 had a too red-ish black, so let's correct that sucker!  (Color bars? We need real-life test media, like random anime creditless OPenings/EnDings... otherwise, you will waste your time) - Marika's desktop, in TSDXHDTM. The wallpaper speaks by itself (FYI, that green-haired girl is the original Marika).  version with Wintendo serialz and my 80387 info!Stay tuned for more random photos from the workbench! ;D |
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). Surprisingly enough, it barely eats resources, so if you can afford a extra minute added in your boot time, you can leave it there (and dock it to your titlebars). Despite the "386DX" requirement, all applications do run fine on a SX (with slowdowns, of course, but not so sluggish as you may be thinking).
