Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:50:39 -0500 From: Duane Attaway <dattaway@attaway.org> Subject: RE: blowing off microsoft stink Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206031134150.32471-100000@balder.coreyt.com>
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> Hmmm, I highly doubt that. First, you can't put an nVidia graphics card
> in a 386, there is no AGP or PCI slots available (and a 386 doesn't have
> enough juice to push it).
Why not? We only need a little bit of solder and decoding circuitry to
wire up any one of those PCI and AGP bridge chips. I have always wanted
to see a 386 used to its potential. We could bridge up a few dozen pci
slots and control the world with a 386. An nVidia GPU too? Absolutely!
> Second, the X-box has an Intel 733Mhz PIII in them, this will run
> circles around that 386 and you WILL notice the difference.
Back in my 386 days, we used coprocessors to speed up the anemic
lobotomized intel cpu's. See where I am going with this? Now,
*technicially* that would be a 386 system, but with just a bit of help.
I have seen strange things before...