Most powerful computer in the group?

Having one shared bank should be quicker but it's impossible to tie down with the massive differences in CPU architecture. You also have to be careful that both CPUs don't rely on the same bit of information at the same time when there is an ordering priority to instructions.

Well I've got a habit for hoarding old papers and magazines, and ages back I had a whole load of old Personal Computer World magazines (written like that to avoid confusion with the shop), but eventually chucked them all out as I saw sense, and the shelf was looking a bit weak. But one of the reasons I kept them was for some of the adverts (like the Dell ones inside the front cover), for 'nostalgic' reasons. It was amazing how much a top-spec PC was (relative to the technology of the time), compared to these days.

-- "They said to me 'You could be anyone you wanted to be', but I was realistic and only ever aimed to be me, which I already was. So I gave up trying."

When did you take those???

There's also some funkiness to do with how the core communicates with the cache and each other. Wasn't AMD's advantage is that the twin core processors communicate with one another and the core that much quicker than the original twin core (or is that HT, heh) Pentium processors. And Intel designed the Centrino Duo such that the two cores communicate with one another so much better?

My first PC was a Radio Rentals Olivetti 486 SX 25 :) cost over 2k

I didnt. Mine are better - newsgroups...

"DervMan" wrote in news:44c392aa$0$5214$ snipped-for-privacy@news.zen.co.uk:

I remember my old DX/120 with 512k cache, 24 meg ram and a dizzy 500meg HD. With a PCI 1meg video card and isa soundblaster 16. Fastest booting PC I've ever owned, even now.

"Ronny" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@pipex.net:

First game I saw on a PC was MegaRace. Still got the CD somewhere...

booting PC

Well I remember an issue of PC World with "Fastest PCs ever!" on the front cover. It was a group test of 120MHz Pentiums. Ironically enough, I'm fairly sure there was a 133MHz Pentium advertised inside.

-- "They said to me 'You could be anyone you wanted to be', but I was realistic and only ever aimed to be me, which I already was. So I gave up trying."

Those were the days, eh?

I still remember borrowing a mate's 68030 50 MHz board for my Amiga and it rocked, as in, it utterly rocked compared to the 14 MHz 68020 I usually ran... :)

Bah CD, newcomer. My first PC didn't have a CD drive as they were new and according to all the major publications would "never take off" after all "why would you need 650mb of data when you can get most games on 4 floppies" (wasn't it something like 6 for DOS 6 and 13 for Windows 3.1?)

My first desktop was a PC XT... that lovely green text / black screen. It had a proper floppy drive, one of these new fangled "hard case" floppy drives and a keyboard that was so sturdy, you could use it to batter somebody. It was also very, very heavy.

My first notebook had:

A 286 processor with a 387 maths co-processor.

My main machine is running in a 1/2 height rack with a perspex door. The case is on rails and pulls out with handles on the front. Best thing is that I scored it off a client for a case of beer. : )

Fraser

My first pc had 16k of ram and plugged into my atari 2600. I'm feeling old.

Fraser

Dude you win.

Damn and I thought I might have some bragging rights to "the slowest oldest PC compatible" heh.

Multivision (Remember them?) AMD 1900+

Plus a load of other bits - DVD re-writer, TV card, 8 cooling fans, webcam (for teaching purposes only!) etc.

About 6 seconds.

David

After that I got a ZX spectrum from my cousin in the uk. Then an Amstrad cpc64. Then amiga 500. I've been using computers since I was 6 and I'm 32 now.

Fraser

I have a P133 (I think, might have been replaced by a P166 MMX) running a thermal printer in the shed. Probably one of the oldest machines anyone here actually still uses.

running a

Not anywhere near as old as that, but I'm thinking of setting up either this PC (if I were to get a new one) or possibly my laptop (a semi-ancient Thinkpad T20 which direly needs upgrading from Win98) as a more or less dedicated system for running torrents. Mainly for getting my ratio on uknova up a bit as it's pretty dire, due to me closing Azureus whenever I've downloaded something, combined with not much uploading even when it is loaded due to me knowing ferk all about NAT and opening ports and stuff, and Azureus not providing specific instructions on how to specifically set up my router to make things better. That, combined with the fact that I can't really be arsed to find out.....

-- "They said to me 'You could be anyone you wanted to be', but I was realistic and only ever aimed to be me, which I already was. So I gave up trying."