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nice digits, shit bait
I need less
32 bit is a flash in the pan
what can you do with it?
Like 99% of what most people use a computer for.
>word processing
>spreadsheets
>printing
>email
>reading books
>socializing
>making music
>gaming
You unironically don't need more than a 286 with a couple megabytes of ram.
I was stuck on a 286 in the early 90s.
You could even see a 640x480 jpg load pixel by pixel top to bottom from your HDD. GIFs were bottom to top.
Want to print your document? There's no wysiwyg interface, that's way too slow in win3.11 to actually work with. You need to "render" it first for some time then go back and make adjustments before committing to paper.
I definitely needed more.
jpegs on a 286? i've viewed jpegs on a 486 laptop and even that was pretty slow to load (even in a dedicated dos viewer), i can't imagine them on a 286
>6 watt TDP in 1992
how did boomer engineers do it
They were blown away by the speed and capabilities.
The 25MHz 386 was released in 1988 and was the high-end option on the personal computer market.
By 1996 you could buy a mobile phone with a 25MHz 386 chip in it with 35 hours of standby and 3 hours of talk time.
That's 8 years from desktop to phone. Imagine having the power of an i7 6700k in your phone today.
I am pretty sure current top end mobile chips are in fact more powerful than a Core i7 6700k. In Geekbench at least the Snapdragon 8 gen 3 easily outperforms the 6700k.
I had an SX-33 growing up and it was shit.
DX2-66 would have been so much better.
No.
These things could run not only fanless but even without any cooler at all... Now we need picrel. What happened???
more power -> needs more energy -> gets hotter
Smaller for the same computational power might need way less energy, at the same time larger component can handle more energy just because they are bulkier. But they have also tended to increase computational power at the same time the components have shrunk. The curve must always go up.
a j4105 celeron also runs fanless and has godlike power compared to that thing while using 4W total
The transistor density and frequency was very low. This was a 600nm chip at the newest revision
always wanted a 486 dx4 100 but went straight to a pentium from my 386 sx
Yeah I need more. This new game called “Quake” just dropped and it requires a math coprocessor and FPU that the 486 simply does not have. But I guess you can keep playing doom and wolfenstein clones, grandpa. I need particle effects and dynamic lighting. I need more!
1. math coprocessor and fpu are different names for the same thing
2. the 486dx has a built in fpu, it's the sx that has it disabled
I guess if you wanted to play quake at 12th in 320x320 you could run it on a 486DX. But I have a brand new OpenGL card and I want to play it in 1024x768 so I need my pentium with MMX
I first saw Quake on my friend's 486DX, so it definitely worked.
His problem wasn't the CPU, but the fact that he had only 2MB of RAM, when Quake needs 4 minimum. So after reading the documentation, it turns out you can set up dos4gw.exe to use your hard disk as extra RAM, essentially a DOS swap file for a specific program. Needless to say, the slideshow was extreme, something like a frame every two seconds. But we were still impressed, as we've never seen that type of graphics before, and my friend played through a good chunk of it that way. Any 3D screenshots were circulated and admired, the tech was that novel at the time.
i'm not claiming quake is suitable on a 486, just that it's incorrect to say op's cpu doesn't have an fpu
ps. you can use a voodoo card with a 486, and it's technically playable on a 486 motherboard, though whether you count "5x86" chips as 486's is up to you
Something with the MMX instruction set would be nice