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[strtj]

It's a shame to not see this compared to any of the higher-end, or at least middle-end, Ryzen 3 processors. Do I want this to replace a 3600?

[strtj]

Yes, that is what I was referring to. The largest performance improvement that I saw, percentage wise, was in ET:Legacy which was (459.5/214.6)=2.14x...

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"code that could deliver 10x the performance for some games" - wake me up when anything even close to this actually happens. I barely saw 2x...

[strtj]

Saying "I don't like mailing lists" is a ridiculous reason not to contribute to something. Most of the time you don't even have to sign up...

[strtj]

I was assuming that "68000" in the article meant the literal 68000 chip, not the 68k family. Of course you can stuff an '040 full of RAM. ...

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That's exactly what I wanted to know. So if you have an architecture where all existing hardware can't support more than ~32-64MB of RAM, there's absolutely...

[strtj]

That's exactly because so many of us just threw the stuff out, so it's becoming rarer and rarer. Plus, keeping it in running shape gets harder and harder....

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That's probably true for many of us. As part of my regular job duties I remember junking 50+ early high-end PowerPC macs, lots of 486 stuff, lots of...

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Just for giggles I tried booting a 5.4.80 kernel Gentoo x86 admin CD on a Dual PPro-200 with 224MB of RAM; it loaded the kernel and then just hung. Not...

[strtj]

About the argument of whether it makes sense to replace an old 486 or whatever with a Raspberry Pi: You're assuming that the software is able to be ported...

[strtj]

Sorry, my memory was off, I was trying to install a modern Gentoo and ended up falling back to Yellow Dog (2.0, I think?).

What is the lowest...

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Just as a practical matter, I'm curious if you can put enough RAM into something like a 486 machine to make booting a reasonable modern kernel possible....

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I went and looked up the details because I couldn't remember them (I never personally ran it) - they called it Memory Trolling, which in and of itself...

[strtj]

This existed ~25 years ago in Tru64 (Digital Unix / OSF/1). I can't remember if it was a paid add-on or if it existed in the base OS, but it did pretty...

[strtj]

It had little to do with legacy code execution speed. It was mostly the fact that decent performance depended almost entirely on a fantastic optimizing...