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TripleFault [5] | 80686 -> 80486 -> 80386 -> 80286 !?!? (DOSX)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 25.08.2007, 03:15
(edited by Rugxulo on 25.08.2007, 03:27)

> ??? In DOS ? For me it perfectly worked with both DOS/32A and
> HDPMI32 ... BTW, the "XP" machine returns (in DOS) CPU=$F, and not 6 ...
> Wilamette rulez

No, not in DOS, I meant in XP, sorry.

Anyways, IIRC, my P4 returns "F24" for family / model / stepping via CPUID. But I think even AMD64x2 returns "F28" (or similar), so that confused me.

> > LINK
>
> COOL. Someone should repeat the test with Loonix ... would be
> interesting ... OTOH it might rise big trouble ... since it
> possibly would bring up the final evidence that Loonix will never boot
> into anything below 400 MHz or 128 MiB ... and thus is much more
> CPU and memory hoggy than "Windows" - fully against the claims of some
> hard-core FSF/GNU geeks criticizing Vi$ta because of its excessive system
> requirements and CPU/memory hogging

The X11 server eats up a lot, as does multitasking in general, and moreso if you use a RAM disk. And GCC doesn't help (quite greedy), so you'll often have to swap a lot. Even Damn Small Linux uses about 20+ MB RAM minimum after boot (1 min. 30 sec. to boot DSL 3.3 on a P2 333Mhz) without doing anything. I still say that DSL's the best bet (AFAIK) for using Linux on an old machine ... unless you wanna use tomsrtbt: 1.7MB floppy (abandoned?? not updated in > 5 years), has DHCP, telnet, wget, kinda quirky especially for a noob like me but good for crawl.akrasiac.org at least.

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Know your limits.h

Complete thread:

• TripleFault - DOS386, 13.08.2007, 06:46 (DOSX)
  • TripleFault - Japheth, 13.08.2007, 08:24
    • TripleFault [2] - DOS386, 13.08.2007, 08:37
      • TripleFault [2] - Japheth, 13.08.2007, 11:41
        • TripleFault [3] - DOS386, 16.08.2007, 10:09
          • TripleFault [3] - Japheth, 17.08.2007, 10:56
            • TripleFault [4] | 80686 -> 80486 -> 80386 -> 80286 !?!? - DOS386, 19.08.2007, 07:36
              • TripleFault [4] | 80686 -> 80486 -> 80386 -> 80286 !?!? - Rugxulo, 21.08.2007, 03:04
                • TripleFault [4] | 80686 -> 80486 -> 80386 -> 80286 !?!? - Matjaz, 21.08.2007, 11:07
                  • TripleFault [4] | 80686 -> 80486 -> 80386 -> 80286 !?!? - Rugxulo, 22.08.2007, 00:19
                    • TripleFault [5] | 80686 -> 80486 -> 80386 -> 80286 !?!? - DOS386, 25.08.2007, 02:31
                      • TripleFault [5] | 80686 -> 80486 -> 80386 -> 80286 !?!? - Rugxulo, 25.08.2007, 03:15
            • TripleFault [6] VERxx's NOP - DOS386, 31.08.2007, 07:09
              • TripleFault [7] VERxx's NOP | Crash via Ports - DOS386, 02.09.2007, 12:00