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Grand Prize Winner posted:Wait what? did you like trace over the scanned JPEG or something to develop a 3D image or...??? What was the workflow on that like?
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TotalLossBrain posted:CPUs running above 66 MHz didn't happen until the Pentium came around. (It's possible that RISC chips ran faster sooner, though) AMD's 486 486DX2-80 had an 80 MHz clock speed in September of 1994. It came out in September of '94, which I think beat the 75MHz Pentiums to market by almost a full month. 
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Phanatic posted:AMD's 486 486DX2-80 had an 80 MHz clock speed in September of 1994. It came out in September of '94, which I think beat the 75MHz Pentiums to market by almost a full month. The 75 MHz Pentiums curiously came out after the 90 and 100 MHz Pentiums, which were March 1994. I think they were based on the 50 MHz ESes with a 1.5x multiplier instead of 1x (like the 90s and 100s were the 60s and 66s at 1.5x respectively).
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Remember the Cryix chips? I do! I ran one in a Win2k box bcause it was balls cheap.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Remember the Cryix chips? I do! I ran one in a Win2k box bcause it was balls cheap. I remember the IBM/Cyrix ‘Blue Lightning’ 75mhz 486 chip because it’s the only time I ever got good support from a major corporation. I was trying to install OS/2 ‘Warp’ on one and it wouldn’t install for poo poo. I called support and it got elevated to the point where IBM’s tech guys were calling me regularly with possible fixes. I found it hilarious that an IBM- branded OS would not work on an IBM-branded microprocessor. The IBM guys did not seem to find it as funny as I did.
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Kazinsal posted:The 75 MHz Pentiums curiously came out after the 90 and 100 MHz Pentiums, which were March 1994. poo poo, that's right, how did I forget that?
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Kazinsal posted:The 75 MHz Pentiums curiously came out after the 90 and 100 MHz Pentiums, which were March 1994. I think they were based on the 50 MHz ESes with a 1.5x multiplier instead of 1x (like the 90s and 100s were the 60s and 66s at 1.5x respectively). Here is a good rundown of Pentium processor models, speeds, and release dates. The 90 and 100 MHz models were released in March 1994 and the 75 MHz in October. The 486 running at 100 Mhz internally was also released in March 1994. Kazinsal posted:I think they were based on the 50 MHz ESes with a 1.5x multiplier instead of 1x (like the 90s and 100s were the 60s and 66s at 1.5x respectively). They were also 0.6um instead of the earlier 0.8um process.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Remember the Cryix chips? I do! I ran one in a Win2k box bcause it was balls cheap. I had a 5x86-100 and what the sticker on the front of the case says is a 6x86 P120+. The case also has a "Cyrix instead" sticker on it, which I can't find an example of online so I guess I should take a photo someday. I think that case actually contains a P166 though, I upgraded it frequently because I was working at a computer store 
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Buttcoin purse posted:I had a 5x86-100 and what the sticker on the front of the case says is a 6x86 P120+. The case also has a "Cyrix instead" sticker on it, which I can't find an example of online so I guess I should take a photo someday. I think that case actually contains a P166 though, I upgraded it frequently because I was working at a computer store One of these?
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Holy poo poo, that was actually the catchphrase, just a disinterested "instead"
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Holy poo poo, that was actually the catchphrase, just a disinterested "instead" I don’t know how old you are but in the late 80s early 90s Intel Inside branding was inescapable, your grandmother knew the loving Intel jingle. Cyrix Instead was goddamn genius.
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Jan 9, 2018 04:48
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Satan inside, am I rite? I remember an Intel booth at a atl-rock concert giving away those little clean room guy dolls.
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I had no idea Cryix was put out by IBM.
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IBM made the Apple G3 and G5 chips. I wasn't aware they partnered with Cryix but I guess it's not too far fetched.
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People writing “Cryix” triggers my autism something fierce.
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Cryix me a river
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Wait what? did you like trace over the scanned JPEG or something to develop a 3D image or...??? What was the workflow on that like? Sorry, I probably should clarify this. I would do 3 view plan by hand as we were limited on licences and only had two workstations at the time. I could at least be productive doing essentially concept work where either myself or others would then line up and create the 3D files with basic polys. Our interface was setup with views from X, Y and Z axis with 4th window a 3D space, my drafting was then scanned, placed as scalabe background on the respective view windows. I thought it was somewhat common? EDIT: Some of the time we skipped ahead because a manufacturer/client would give us technical drawings so we could recreate their machinery/jobsites and just imported the views. The biggest clusterfuck of a modeling/animation setup was probably using GIS (Geographic Information System) data and directly imported that for terrain information, then existing 3 view plans for mobile machinery, and myself taking a week to photgraph and measure as much as I possibly could of a complete coal port and recreate it from scratch just from my observations. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 09:38 on Jan 9, 2018 |
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SLOSifl posted:He would likely draw two or three projections and then trace them after moving the viewport to the correct position. That was how we transitioned to the CAD software initially, by tracing some previous drawings. In plenty of cases it was still faster to draw it and then use that as a base. You used to do the drawings by hand and then transfer them to CAD via a puck. It was way faster than using the software. Clean up your dims as you transfer. There's something about drawing by hand that helps you think about what you're doing. When I was using Cadkey and AutoCAD back in the '90s, you did almost everything on the keyboard. It wasn't drawing, it was math. I'm sure it's more fluid now. I played with Solidworks once and that was very intuitive. I never liked AutoCAD. The best all-in-one CAD software was Rhino. That was always intuitive to use.
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Glazier posted:I don’t know how old you are but in the late 80s early 90s Intel Inside branding was inescapable, your grandmother knew the loving Intel jingle. Cyrix Instead was goddamn genius. No, the genius was the person who came up with the Intel Outside slogan that they also used. I don't know if it was before or after though.
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Jan 9, 2018 16:26
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The Immortal King of computer designers using Comic Sans.
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Jan 9, 2018 16:45
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That's not Comic Sans, it's their ripoff version that comes with the Mac. Chalkboard, or Noteworthy or something.
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Jan 9, 2018 19:55
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Here's some failed tech from noted crypto-mining giant Kodak hot off the press: https://twitter.com/chrisbhoffman/status/950861459302445056
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No that is goddamn devious and awesome.
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Stock prices seem to agree with you.
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I just wish they'd actually made their vaporware super-8 camera.
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Horace posted:That's not Comic Sans, it's their ripoff version that comes with the Mac. Chalkboard, or Noteworthy or something. A ripoff, yes, kind of, but a ripoff that does the job better. Chalkboard actually has proper kerning and all the pro typeface things that Comic Sans lacks (since CS was never meant to be a proper typeface, just a throwaway crap handwriting thing for Comic Chat?)
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TotalLossBrain posted:Stock prices seem to agree with you. Edit: I wouldn't say I'm surprised though because crypto business doesn't have to make any sense to make millions of dollars Pitch has a new favorite as of 03:03 on Jan 10, 2018 |
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It wouldn't be the first time, for example Nintendo's stock going up after Pokemon Go was released.
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Apparently the real Eastman Kodak simultaneously announced the KodakCoin ICO.
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Jedit posted:No, the genius was the person who came up with the Intel Outside slogan that they also used. I don't know if it was before or after though. This was a joke in Gundam Wing so it's funny that they actually used it as a slogan
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Q: What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put on Pentiums? A: The warning label. (their legendarily bad handling of the FDIV bug spawned a lot of jokes at their expense) JazzmasterCurious posted:A ripoff, yes, kind of, but a ripoff that does the job better. Chalkboard actually has proper kerning and all the pro typeface things that Comic Sans lacks (since CS was never meant to be a proper typeface, just a throwaway crap handwriting thing for Comic Chat?) I like Comic Neue personally. Probably lacking some features if you're a pro designer but eh, it hits the right balance for me. Keiya has a new favorite as of 04:58 on Jan 10, 2018 |
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Keiya posted:(their legendarily bad handling of the FDIV bug spawned a lot of jokes at their expense) I only remember this one: "I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated."
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Keiya posted:(their legendarily bad handling of the FDIV bug spawned a lot of jokes at their expense) My favorite was "Intel engineers misunderstood the latest catchphrase Intel marketers were using. It's 'divide and conquer', not 'divide and cock up'."
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I would trade the meltdown bug for the FDIV bug.
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Pilsner posted:The Immortal King of computer designers using Comic Sans. - the immortal king of dipshits
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Last Chance posted:- the immortal king of dipshits Don’t sign your posts.
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everyone posting jokes they remember about the pentium fuckup is making a dad joke in every sense of the word
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From the letters pages of a gaming magazine, I remember "well, let's see the competition reverse engineer that." featured obsolete tech: gaming magazines, letter pages
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What do Pentiums and rabbits have in common?
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My Lovely Horse posted:featured obsolete tech: gaming magazines, letter pages I used to take photos of my highscores to submit to Nintendo magazines. A film camera, then post them in. Kids these days with their live stream world record attempts.
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