Pentium is a bad processor? It's way faster than 486, especially on FP it's not even close.

The original Pentiums (socket 4, 60 or 66 MHz) had the infamous floating point division bug, had underwhelming perf for anything not FP bound (most things), ran hot, and were too expensive for what you got. A DX/4 100 was nearly always a more rational choice.

Second gen Pentiums, starting with the 75 MHz, were great.

I had a P60 that had the F0 0F bug; Windows would crash for weird reasons on it, but Linux ran like a champ because it actually had a workaround. Luckily my chip was already recalled for the FDIV bug so it wasn't a total boat anchor. Loved that machine. I had BeOS, QNX, and one time I made Linux look like Solaris with all the Open Look stuff - really enjoyed that aesthetic.

Now we have these amazing displays and graphics cards and there's literally no way to make my Mac have different window titlebars or anything. So boring

Idk if the 75 was really that great tho, mostly in that it had a 50Mhz FSB rather than 60 or 66Mhz like most other parts.

Another factor for the later P1s being better IIRC was improved chipsets.

We had a 90 overclocked to 100Mhz that served as the family computer, I inherited from it when the family computer was upgraded to a K6 II and it chugged along as my personal computer until ~2001 thanks to Linux whike the Ghz barrier had been broken for a while already in the Intel world.

I think my next computer came with an AMD Duron 900Mhz, an entry level at the time but the jump from the pentium 100Mhz was such a huge gap it still felt like a formula 1.

To be more exact, I think the first great Pentium was the 133, but the 75 is the first that was a real, proper jump in performance from a fast 486 and represented decent price/performance.

It didn't help that the earliest P5 Pentiums ran on a 5V rail. Newer revisions starting with the P54 core used 3.3V and helped with keeping the chips cool.

The Pentium was great, but the 60 and 66MHz versions were not liked, they ran way too hot.

I think from the price people also expect a similar performance boost as going from 386 to 486. What made Pentium also confusing is that during this time Intel introduced PCI.

From a 486 with VLB to a Pentium with PCI everything became a lot nicer.

Immediately after the ceasefire Israel attacks hundreds of sites in Lebanon, what the heck is that! We are tired of this bloodshed.

Land-mines, particularly anti-personnel land minds are just horrible weapons. They should be banned.

They've been banned since 1997, though Lithuania has withdrawn and Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Finland plan to.

Funny how all countries are adjacent to Russia...

Ukraine has withdrawn as well.

When I was young they talked about a green revolution. Now with low solar panel costs, as well as batteries and inverters we really are living in a green revolution.

The amount of people still on less than 8gb of memory is really small.

I won't stand for this erasure!

Doesn't "amount" just mean "number"?

No.

What the fuck

Go back to grade school grammar.

Ricing = making your linux desktop look pretty. arch = a 'techy' flavour of linux.

ahh... Now I'm connecting it to the 1990's car culture, where people modified Hondas and Toyotas... That's the term we used. I didn't really remember it, especially since political correctness wasn't prevalent back then.

Because as the article explains the US ships cannot even approach the straits due to the threat of anti-ship missiles.

You can mine from the air.

It counts more! His novels are mind-blowing. Blood Meridian is unsurpassed IMO

No counts less? he didn’t write the work when he was 72. If started it when he was 52…

Iran was never a threat to NATO. It was posing no threat when the US launched this war. The entire threat is the fault of US aggression.

5k is almost free. And yes you pay tax to find universities. Makes sense. Paying full tuition in the USA is like paying a tax, only worse, it's a lot more.

As disgusted as I am with Israel's action over the last 80 years, put the blame where it belong.

5k is far from nothing, it is more than enough in any country than subsidize higher education.

Which is most of the world at this point.

I mean have you seen what US colleges cost?