11 Nov
2006
11 Nov
'06
5:54 a.m.
Nice! Reminds me of the very first 486's we saw.
We had a bunch of decent speed 386's at the time, and some upgrades came
in, in the form of 486's. The 486's were also at a higher clock rate,
so we were scratching our heads as to why our software ran much slower
on the 486's.... Turns out that we didn't order any cache chips with
them, while the 386 motherboards had the max they could support!
D'Oh! :-)
Ah, the good ol'e days of Netware 386...
A few years later, we had fun with the F00FC7C8 opcode on the Pentiums.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Strange, but apparently true in some cases:
http://www.intersil.com/data/an/an111.pdf
I imagine that the difference would be exaggerated even more with a
386SX.
Cheers,
Chuck