On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:24:35 +0100
Alan Cox wrote:
> Old ???
>
> I have a 386 here, and a DEC VT220 terminal. Pentium II is merely
> "recent".
I've got a model 12 5bit baudot code western union teletype!
But my old 16 bit x86 something (I forget what chip it had)
recently went to the electronic
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
I have a friend with an even older box that I'm working hard to rescue.
That one has a 4 Gb SCSI hard drive and a Pentium II. It is old, old,
old, equipment. It runs OpenServer 5.0.4 which is another migraine
headache for me. That's my opinion of old hardwa
> >
> I have a friend with an even older box that I'm working hard to rescue.
> That one has a 4 Gb SCSI hard drive and a Pentium II. It is old, old,
> old, equipment. It runs OpenServer 5.0.4 which is another migraine
> headache for me. That's my opinion of old hardware.
Old ???
I have a
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> F11 is -march=i586 -mtune=generic, F12 is going to be -march=i686
>> -mtune=atom. Everything from PPro up is i686, so everything should work
>> just fine.
>
> VIA processors such as the C3 are PPro compatible *but* the GNU C
> compiler definition
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>
> My advice to you is to give the Pentium III box to a charity, and get
> yourself a new quad core Intel machine.
Why Intel? I prefer to support the underdog. Plus, AMD Opteron is better. ;-)
I didn't say that was my only machine. It's an
On 06/23/2009 09:52 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
I´m contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a
dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and
ATA-33 hard disk controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI
video adapters (video chipset? I don´t even remember) for a
dual-dis
> F11 is -march=i586 -mtune=generic, F12 is going to be -march=i686
> -mtune=atom. Everything from PPro up is i686, so everything should work
> just fine.
VIA processors such as the C3 are PPro compatible *but* the GNU C
compiler definition of i686 is (was ?) broken and incorrectly used cmov
witho
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 14:00 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Fernando Cassia wrote:
> > All PIIIs are single cores, AFAIK. Mine is dual in the sense of having
> > two CPUs, including heatsink. You know, good ole "SMP" before the
> > multicore craze started.
> >
> > Good to know F11 runs OK. I wasn´t
Fernando Cassia wrote:
2009/6/23 Alan Evans :
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
I惴 contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a
dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and
ATA-33 hard disk controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI
video adapte
Alan Evans wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> All PIIIs are single cores, AFAIK.
>
> Of course I knew that. In my mind, "dual" and "dual core" are the same
> thing and don't necessarily mean that the cores are on the same die.
> Kind of like when I say a Sun E1
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> All PIIIs are single cores, AFAIK.
Of course I knew that. In my mind, "dual" and "dual core" are the same
thing and don't necessarily mean that the cores are on the same die.
Kind of like when I say a Sun E1 is 64-core, I don't mean on
> > (Single-core Pentium III, 750MHz, 384MB RAM, Blah video hardware.)
>
> All PIIIs are single cores, AFAIK. Mine is dual in the sense of having
Yes.
> two CPUs, including heatsink. You know, good ole "SMP" before the
> multicore craze started.
>
> Good to know F11 runs OK. I wasn´t even sure
2009/6/23 Alan Evans :
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> I惴 contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a
>> dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and
>> ATA-33 hard disk controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI
>> video adapters (video chi
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> I惴 contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a
> dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and
> ATA-33 hard disk controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI
> video adapters (video chipset? I don�� even remember)
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:52:39 -0300
> Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
>> plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI
>> video adapters (video chipset? I don´t even remember) for a
>> dual-display config.
>
> I was running a dual PIII with about the same specs
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:52:39 -0300
Fernando Cassia wrote:
> plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI
> video adapters (video chipset? I don´t even remember) for a
> dual-display config.
I was running a dual PIII with about the same specs not
too long ago. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't really
pepp
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:52 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> I´m contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a
> dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and ATA-33 hard disk
> controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI video adapters
Do you have a network of computers?
I´m contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a
dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and
ATA-33 hard disk controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI
video adapters (video chipset? I don´t even remember) for a
dual-display config.
Would Fedora 11 run OK in such a sy
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