This board makes me wistful for the days that popping a NEC V20 chip
into an XT and hearing the memory test click speed up reminded you of
how much farther into the SPACE AGE you were.
This board makes me wistful for the days that popping a NEC V20 chip
into an XT and hearing the memory test click speed up reminded you of
how much farther into the SPACE AGE you were.
How much did it improve performance? Was there anything in particular
that went much faster with a V20?
kirkspragg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
How much did it improve performance? Was there anything in particular
that went much faster with a V20?
k9zw wrote to kirkspragg <=-
Putting things into context, the use of benchmarking applications
wasn't all that common outside of IT techs, and I tended to measure how many sips of coffee one could take while waiting when I ran my linear regression programs. Less sips between enter and results was a faster experience.....
Or the joy of going from a 1mb graphics card to a 8mb graphics card.
And we still haven't put a man or woman on the moon since Apollo 17!
companies (SpaceX, maybe?) is
working on that. It's possible it
might happen by 2030.
Maybe they will send a trans person to the moon. Get two birds stoned at on
Mortar M. wrote to kirkspragg <=-
And we still haven't put a man or woman on the moon since Apollo 17!
Wait for it. I forget the outfit, but one of the commercial space companies (SpaceX, maybe?) is working on that. It's possible it might happen by 2030.
Oh, I remember that well. I remember playing Quake on some no-brand VGA card, getting lousy frame rates and poor color. Then I bought an 8 Mb, Voodoo 2 card and ho-ly crap, what a difference!
Oh, I remember that well. I remember playing Quake on some no-brand VGA
card, getting lousy frame rates and poor color. Then I bought an 8 Mb,
Voodoo 2 card and ho-ly crap, what a difference!
This is exactly how I (mis-)spent my late teenage years! Well, that and paying by the minute to hang around on IRC talking with the Quake people.
Well, mostly Quake II, actually, and I sucked at it. But I never let that dampen my enthusiasm.
Well, mostly Quake II, actually, and I sucked at it. But I never let that dampen my enthusiasm.
This is exactly how I (mis-)spent my late teenage years! Well, that and paying by the minute to hang around on IRC talking with the Quake people.
You consider that mis-spent? ;)
Heh, I grok. I'm not the best FPS player around. Actually, I was more interested in just exploring the levels and admiring the level designs.
Of course, after that he learned all my tricks and could add them himself so m
help was no longer needed :(
Ooh, you just unlocked another memory for me. I started doing some level editing for Quake / Quake II but found I had no imagination and made rubbish levels. My best friend had the knack for making interesting
My nephew has gotten into doom, doom 2, quake, he likes making places in minecraft so I learned how to use "Trenchbroom" today to make Quake levels, hoping to teach him how to use it and make a level together.
"Brushes" are strange, I knew that when I was a teenager but I didn't really understand why, but I do now, that you can only make polyhedrons (bricks/etc) and then "slice" them with an infinate plane, so this is why you can't have a single face in the shape of a gear, or that a doorway has to be made of many separate cubes..
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