The Cape Cod Disaster

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Post by eaguyhn » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 5:45 AM UTC

The Cape Cod Disaster
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Post by IanDrake » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 2:06 PM UTC

Being from Cape Cod, I was expecting something else from the title.

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Post by dsfyu404ed » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 2:12 PM UTC

IanDrake wrote: post #2

Being from Cape Cod, I was expecting something else from the title.

Also being from Cape Cod I found it completely fitting that the product was expensive garbage.

In order to truly live up to the expectations set by the name customers would have had to have bought it in droves based on some perceived brand image but Intel recalled it before that could happen.

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Post by MrBuddyCasino » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 4:00 PM UTC

>The Pentium III (especially a single CPU) was not a particularly memory-hungry CPU

So CPUs are now wrestling software for memory? What is this supposed to mean?

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Post by joshyeager » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 4:16 PM UTC

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #4

>The Pentium III (especially a single CPU) was not a particularly memory-hungry CPU So CPUs are now wrestling software for memory? What is this supposed to mean?

Relative to its clock speed, the Pentium III had a lot of cache, good memory bandwidth, and low memory latency. And back then, disk IO was extremely slow. These two facts meant that common workloads were more often constrained on CPU cycles or disk IO, rather than RAM access.

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Post by josefresco » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 4:21 PM UTC

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #3

IanDrake wrote: post #2

Being from Cape Cod, I was expecting something else from the title.

Also being from Cape Cod I found it completely fitting that the product was expensive garbage. In order to truly live up to the expectations set by the name customers would have had to have bought it in droves based on some perceived brand image but Intel recalled it before that could happen.

Also being from Cape Cod ... I got nothin' just felt like joining the party. Hey Ian!

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Post by bitwize » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 4:48 PM UTC

I remember this. Was running an Athlon box at the time. The RDRAM kerfuffle, and the privacy implications of each part being given a queryable unique ID, scared me off getting a Pentium III system.

Remember that time Rambus tried to get a hammerlock on the RAM industry by claiming patent rights over DDR, the industry's alternative to RDRAM?

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Post by fourseventy » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 5:09 PM UTC

IanDrake wrote: post #2

Being from Cape Cod, I was expecting something else from the title.

Me too lol

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Post by IanDrake » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 5:21 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #6

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also being from Cape Cod I found it completely fitting that the product was expensive garbage. In order to truly live up to the expectations set by the name customers would have had to have bought it in droves based on some perceived brand image but Intel recalled it before that could happen.

Also being from Cape Cod ... I got nothin' just felt like joining the party. Hey Ian!

Hey Jose!

This is hilarious. I think of the Cape as pretty tech starved, but I see why we all ended up in the comment section of this post!

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Post by _ea1k » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 5:29 PM UTC

IanDrake wrote: post #2

Being from Cape Cod, I was expecting something else from the title.

I'm not from anywhere close to Cape Cod, and I was really confused at the comments for a while. I generally read the comments first, and I was wondering what someone could have done with Pentium chips and RAM latencies to cause some disaster there.