blowing off microsoft stink

[Lucas Peet]

Where Microsoft came into this, I have no idea...

X Box == X Windows Box...

-Lucas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Attaway" <dattaway at attaway.org>
To: "Jeremy Fowler" <jfowler at westrope.com>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>; "david nicol" <whatever at davidnicol.com>; "zscoundrel"
<zscoundrel at kc.rr.com>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: blowing off microsoft stink

> 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...
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