Yep...i missed out on 2 whole generations of computers Ahh well. Cheaper this way I still use the monitor from the P100 daily. I think it's about 10 years old now LOL
Actually my first processor was that 233 mhz MMX pentium 1. It lasted me 7 years. Now I'm using it as a necklace.
I wasnt kidding though. You guys are right though. P2s p1s and 486s make good routers and printservers. p2s make great DNS servers. but i dont have any 486 mobos... and my grandma has my p1 and i think we gave away the 386 or something... i dun remember i was 3 back then 18 now... Aww man good memmories WHO HERE PLAYED SOPWITH BACK IN THE DAY?
How many CPU companies are there anyway? I can only think of a few: 1. Intel 2. AMD 3. Cyrix/VIA 4. Transmeta 5. Wasn't Sun creating CPU's as well? 6. IBM Are there more of them, because the only CPU's you'll find in most rigs are from AMD or Intel.
If AMD had more OEM's including AMD processors in the machines, Intel would be dead. Until AMD hits the office, they will always remain lagging behind. Mind you, current trends could change if AMD win their court case... We have 2 Intel, and 1 AMD in our house. Intel for the server and my daughters machine, AMD for the wifes gaming machine.
Only the first 4 are x86 compatible, so you could have a PC with them but it wouldn't run any x86 software. Via and Transmeta both make specialty products (low power), so they have a very small marketshare. I think transmeta is gone though. There are a bunch based on RISC architecture, though that only went very mainstream was motorola/IBM and Apple computers with powerpc. Also I think nearly all your handhelds and such are based on those.
IBM also made X86 CPUs back then. The even made special enhanced 486 and 686 chips together with Cyrix...(http://www.computissimo.ch/v-ang/microproc.htm)
-Moterola makes CPUs for smart phones. They used to make Apple's CPUs. -Apple to an extent but this falls under the category of IBM. -ARM who makes CPUs for PDAs. AMD must have also made chips for Apple in the past. My old Mac LCIII has an unidentified chip on the mobo with the AMD logo on it. It's not the CPU, I wonder what it is.
What about x86 compatible CPU's? IBM was also one of those, right? Btw, interesting link, Alec. Oh man! I want to have an AMD 486 DX4-120
Intel Pentium 100Mhz Intel Pentium 2 400Mhz AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.2Ghz Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4Ghz Intel Pentium M Dothan 1.6Ghz
I think Motorola used to be a fairly large cpu manufacturer 17+years ago. Hitachi has also made a few CPUs, but I think they only went into consoles. (Dreamcast CPU)
They made CPUs for Apple for a number of years, right up until the last pre-G3 CPUs. I think the last ones they made where for the Starmax, a derivative of the PowerMac 4400. The Moterola MC68000 was also used in the console market to power the Sega Genesis. In fact, the 68000 is probably one of the most overclockable CPUs I've seen double stock speeds possible on stock cooling. Although stability begins to degrade after a 1.5x overclock.
tried amd... from then never looked back to intel... if forums like this will not exists I will also forgot that intel exists
Well, AMD should create some kind of commercial similair to the ones Intel broadcasted 13 years ago with the "Intel Inside" hype. We all know the Intel tune, but there isn't an AMD tune.
