2017年7月26日 · Pentium Pro was offered to consumer space in the form of Pentium II, and later, Pentium III. The dead end was Pentium 4. Pentium Pro is the processor that effectively killed RISC (except as an internal implementation of CISC …

2020年5月23日 · When the first Pentium 4 model (Wilamette), was introduced in late 2000 as 1.3 and 1.4 MHz, the fastest Pentium III was a Coppermine with 1.100/1.133 GHz (100/133 MHz FSB). While it featured a higher MHz number (good for advertisement) its performance was significantly lower - at best some two-thirds of the Pentium III.

2020年4月19日 · It's adviced as being capable of running on a Pentium III It should run on most computers, ranging from 256MB old PIII systems with pre-configured swap to the latest powerful boxes. 256MB RAM is recommended minimum for antiX.

many Pentium motherboards, depending on the chipset and configuration, won't cache RAM past 64MB in L2 cache; running without L2 cache is so slow the systemd cannot complete boot process. Realistically, a minimal 32-bit system requirement for modern software is Pentium III with 512MB of RAM and a Radeon-based AGP card.

2024年10月20日 · The Pentium III was still based on a 1995 Pentium Pro (P6) architecture. It wasn't until the 2007 core architecture that Intel regained ground with the Core design, the first really new architecture - no, the Pentium 4 was an utterly failure. Great on first sight, but deadly crippled when running real world loads.

2021年1月8日 · I would assume that "scaled to a 700 MHz Pentium III" is a very poetic way of expressing what they are actually doing (whatever that is), unless they have a cycle-exact Pentium III emulation executing these programs - which is very doubtful.

2023年4月22日 · @RonJohn Well, some experts at a high-profile processor company in the late 1990s seems to have though in a similar way than the OP, and created an x86 design to replace the Intel Pentium III that should run at way higher clocks by having very simple pipeline steps. The target was to hit 6GHz to 7GHz some years later.

2020年9月2日 · Pentium Pro: 0.6µm BiCMOS, down to 0.35µm; Pentium MMX: 0.28µm CMOS (which Intel referred to as 0.35µm because the transistor density is the same as 0.35µm BiCMOS used in previous Pentiums); Pentium II: 0.35µm CMOS, then 0.25µm; Pentium III: 0.25µm CMOS, down to 0.18µm; Pentium 4: 0.18µm CMOS, down to 65nm; Core 2: 65nm CMOS, then 45nm.

2020年12月15日 · The AMD 5x86 (not "586") pulled the same trick against the standard 486 processors as the Intel did with the Pentium MMX (P55C) compared to the Pentium (P54C): They doubled L1 cache size, which resulted in 10 to 20 percent higher IPC for "typical software of that era". It's up to you whether you call "more cache" a "technical achievement" or not.

2018年7月7日 · I've been imaging old C64 floppies using a 1541 disk drive connected to my old Pentium III via a homebrew parallel cable and the Star Commander. Given that my disks are 30+ years old, I am amazed ...