Originally posted by Quackdoc
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The pre-nehemiah C3 was unable to run i686 code. And it took until 2008 until VIA shipped some x86-64 chips. This was the era of the intel Atom, and netbooks, and VIA based machines were the most crappy badly supported ones out there (and i know, i own quite a few of them).
VIA had a tiny window in the 2001-2006 era. When both intel and AMD processors used third party chipsets (SiS, VIA, nvidia and ati -- ali was already long gone by then). And before intel launched the Atom and VIA epias were useful small machines. VIA barely generated return buyers though with their bad software support.
So no-one sensible has bought this hw in 15 years. And VIA has not been making new chip designs in 11 years.
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