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Their stock-standard boards are excellent, Doug. As good a board as you can buy, in my view. But a dual board seems to me to be an entirely different sort of product. Have they the experience and the know-how to do this as competently as they do their routine mid-market products? Should we...

Too right I'm pissed. :( I hate it when people call a motherboard a mobo. "Pissed" I can accept as merely the usual unlovely American idiom - "pissed off" is to be preffered of course - but 'mobo' is only marginally less neanderthal than "gigs" instead of "gigabytes" or "GB". Damnit, Cougtek...

Go here: http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=2594 Scroll down till you find Dextroz's post, about six posts down. Read it. Then go change your pants. :lol: :o :-? :roll: :mrgrn: :lol: :D

Ahh, Tea is just a panic merchant. Nothing in the slightest unplanned or dangerous going on. I just downloaded the entire site to my local drive, backed it up to CD, and then deleted the remote copy. If Tea would stop running round in circles waving her hands in the air for an hour or so, I'd...

I can't comment on the quality of their news or of their reviews, PW, simply because I haven't looked hard enough at their site to make a fair and balanced judgement. I doubt that I will do that anytime soon. I try to make it a habit not to ever respond to spammers, and though I've poked around...

No time to read the link right now but,oh gentle CPU gurus, might it be fair of me to say that the desigh philosophies of Intel and AMD seem to be leading them in different directions? Intel toward a very small, very low latency cache, and AMD toward larger and more flexible but higher latency...

Oh my God. I thought I had forgotten about bloody Compaq bloody portables and their fifteen billion bloody torx screws, fifteen billion and one if you count the secret one that holds it all together and you can't find without consulting an oracle. (And no, I don't mean Larry Ellison, I mean...

It is a darn nice picture. The symbolism is lost on me (hell, I haven't even seen a picture of the WTC crash or the fire that followed - I decided not to switch the TV on that night and have not had cause to regret it yet) but I can sort of guess what a sense of resurection and redemption that...

What? No Lapines? No Rodimes? No Miniscribes? Not even a Micropolis? Ahh, the youth of today :(

That would be nice, Tim. Thankyou. Hmmm.... Maybe I should give you a "most wanted" list? (Don't push your luck, Tannin.) (It never hurts to ask, Tea.) Hmmm, no need for a list anyway: the missing pictures make themselves obvious. Biggest gap is a Miniscribe 3650, dreadful things that they...

Silver, you lunatic.

I've recently been buying some midi-tower cases that have slim-line rails. You can use the rails (if you have rocks in your head) or just throw them away and screw the drives in directly. Maybe this one is like that.

"The power supply in this case is a special one. No spare is available for replacement at this time." Don't walk away from this one Cliptin. Run! Don't look back. Don't even think about it.

Try Wagner.

I was going to mention Also Spake Zarathustra in my last post, but torn between the twin evils of spelling it wrong or standing up to find a suitable book to look it up in, I just skipped the topic. Indeed, it is terribly over used, at least the opening fanfare is, but I have seen it live two...

Yes. It's improved a great deal, hasn't it. :)

Damn it James, don't tempt me! Sydney is wonderful at this time of year.

Doubtless there is much else that is wonderful about Schumann, but for me, just the four symphonies would do. I usually keep the program, or if I don't have one, make better mental notes, Mercutio. But having made sure to get one, it seems to have wound up in Kristi's pocket. (Yes, she has a...

ATAPI on Promise in an ASUS board? Sure they do. At least, there was a generation which had ATA-66 on the chipset and ATA-100 via Promise. I made a practice of putting the (ATA-100) hard drives on the ATA-66 controllers, because they always work, and the (ATA-33) optical drives on the Promise...

It wasn't Markus Stentz. Right now I feel like someone who just won the silver medal at the world cup. (Look! Look! Tannin is on-topic!) (Not for long though.) Yes, the silver medal. I can't work out if I feel delighted to have just seen a wonderful piece of music well-played, or depressed...

Sol, your "corpratism", for all it's suspect spelling, is an almost exact description of the system usually known as State Monopoly Capitalism. (Tannin - you - are complaining aboout Sol's spelling?) (Shutup Tea,) Dates, HD, were off the top of my head and inexact. As was my entire post...

Thanks Cliptin! I'll give that method a go. Actually I shouldn't need to, I already have internet connection sharing installed on my network (thanks to some help from Sol), it has come out of the box with OS/2 since, er 1996 or '93, I forget if it was version 4.0 or 3.0. ECS (lastest version)...

No, a 55MHz bus. To give it the full name, the 6x86 P133+It had a 55MHz bus, 110MHz clock. See: www.redhill.net.au/hw-cpu-4.html#686-133 Unless you really meant the Cyrix 5x86-133, in which case I've never heard of such a beast. AMD made a chip of that name, but that was actually a re-named...

My fault, Doug. I should have written to you or posted in the admin forum. Flagreen was elected to his badge and gun as of 1st January, Mercutio as of 1st April. Given the date of his appointment - April Fools Day - it seems entirely appropriate that his actual powers have not arrived. :) In...

State Monopoly Capitalism: (USSR 1919 till about 1950) Mixed Economy: (Australia 1949 - 1980, many other places) Facisim: (Germany 1930 - 1945, Japan 1900 - present, USA 1850 - present) Fudalisim: (Europe 500AD - 1789AD, China 5000BC - 1900 AD) Hunter-Gathering: (Australia 10,000BC - 1798AD...

You little tart, Tea! How many times have you asked for help?

Hello Doug? Mercutio is supposed to be green. Wasn't there a song about that once? "It's not easy being green?"

Yup. We shipped our share of 83MHz bus systems - not M-II 366 parts, 6x86MX-266 - and they were really, really hard to get right. You needed good RAM. decent main board (not PC Chips!), and care with your choice of video card. Even then you had to hold your tongue just right. Why did we...

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Thanks Mercutio. I've updated the M-II 366 entry appropriately. Do you know which of the two clockings was the one that actually shipped? Or was it both? IDT and P-266MMX I'll do later. Perhaps the 266MMX was, like the K6-III+ an "official bootleg" part. I'm pretty sure it was never an...

Actually, for some reason that I have never taken the trouble to track down, I seem to have your rightful edit button, Mercutio. I've been meaning to write to Doug about that but keep forgetting. Given the vast amount of moderation required at present, i.e., none whatever, it didn't seem urgent.

Actually, that's how I came to find Chris Hare's page in the first place, many years ago now. I was doing an Alta Vista search one day to see who was linking to redhill.net and I followed the link backwards. It's been a valuable resource for me ever since.

Hmm ... Monday lunchtime I'll show her this thread. If you all ask nicely, who knows what might happen?

Less parasitic capacitance, mostly, if I remember correctly, which means fewer wasted electrons heating the thing up and thus faster clockspeeds. But Coug and HellDiver are both far better informed about this stuff that I am.

Thanks Tim.

Ahh, thankyou Buck. I've been having a lot of fun with reflections these last few weeks, but I'm fast running out of trees to photograph drives under! (I only have a small garden.) I might be forced, next nice day, to take a collection of opened hard drives for a drive out into the countryside...

Actually, I like to know the process technology, it tells you quite a lot. Knowing that, for example, the 486DLCs were made on a much inferior process to the AMD and Intel 486 parts tells me that Cyrix were doing it hard: a tiny start-up company making their first venture into full-scale CPU...

Cliptin my man, you have a deal! Now, can we find a volunteer to do Cyrix?

Ahh, you are a Chris Hare's Page fan as well, Mercutio. I might have guessed. It's a goldmine, that place, I've been going there for years. Though I haven't see the voltage charts. I better check again.

Bill, I should not be in the slightest surprised if what you say turns out to be true. After the humiliations they endured when their 0.35 micron process was not up to scratch, seeing them have the K5 sampling at 100MHz while both Cyrix and Intel were pumping out 200MHz class chips in volume...

Must be an IE 6.0 special, James. I've never had that, and I regularly use: Opera 6.0 Win 2000 IE 5.0 Win 2000 Mozilla 0.99 OS/2 And sometimes use: Navigator 2.02 OS/2 Communicator 4.61 OS/2 Navigator 4.08 Win 2000 Mozilla 0.99 Win 2000 Or else therer is something funny going on.

Tea, your proofreading is appalling.

Quantum ille canis est in fenestram?

Correction to my post above: it seems that IBM are keeping their enterprise drives. It makes sense.

I think you are right, Buck. But two things to note: First, it is only rumour at present. It's just wacky enough to be true, but it's still only rumour at this stage. Second, it will inded change the industry - but not, perhaps in the way that you expect. (Making an unwarranted assumption...

Fails miserably on the test of informed consent - that consent without which no contract is binding. It's very rare indeed to see it tested in the courts though. The last time of note was when they prosecuted a German company for selling perfectly legitimate (i.e., not pirated) copies of Windows...

Monsieur Giant, as he so often does, is making perfect sense. In the old days you used to have to reformat your SCSI drives because of the various incompatible LBA addressing schemes that the various adaptor makers used. You shouldn't have to do that anymore though, not since, oh, about the time...

Glad you like the sig, guys. It's not mine, of course, it's a quote from Napoleon.

Well gentlemen, I see that my investment is in action. After a long rest, our friend The Giver is back and sporting his new Tannin-selected tag. http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=2573

Huh? I thought it was in South Africa?