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On 19/11/13 12:17, Tom wrote: > On 19/11/13 11:29, Rob Beard wrote: >> >> >> On 19/11/2013 10:25, Paul Sutton wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I was looking for a music cd and came across 2 cd's of PCW back issues >>> >>> July 96 - June 98 and June 95 - July 97 >>> >>> >>> I remember someone mentioning PCW so kept them out, If anyone would >>> like them they are welcome to them, a good way to dive in to computing >>> history, >>> >>> pdf format files (sorry tom) and you need 486 or above and a massive >>> 8mb >>> Ram, (lol) and win3.1 the pdfs are also printable apparently >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Paul >>> >> >> Do any of them have any adverts for the AMD 486DX4-100 CPU? Actually >> that might be circa 1994. I just remember it being really funny, >> something along the lines of "100 reasons why the AMD 486DX4-100 is >> better than an Intel Pentium" with one of the reasons about it being >> able to do maths correctly (in reference to the early Pentium DIV >> bug?). :-) >> >> Rob >> > I've got a 50MHz 486 upstairs with a gig of ram inside that I cant > seem to part with. It used to outperform the pentium 70 and was not > far behind the 120. Ran Yggdrassil with a 0.91 kernel > ISTR it booted faster than Unity on my 4 core 2.5Ghz AMD.... > Tom te tom tom > I remember that distro, and 0.91 kernel must have been one of the really early releases. I started a little later kernel 1.0.5 on slackware, i am sure the cd with that on is still around somewhere. Paul -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 Exeter Raspberry PI Jam 23rd November - http://dcglug.drogon.net/meetings/ Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam 14th December - http://dcglug.drogon.net/torbay-pi-jam/ I am committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable groups and expect any school or establishment I am involved with to share this commitment. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq