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Re: [LUG] personal computer world (PCW)

 

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

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