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Yes, for exactly the reason. SDRAM is much easier to work with in retro computing than DDR.
My first DDR system, an Athlon XP, feels like a very different beast than my 440BX with SDRAM despite being only a couple years newer. :)
486? If it has VLB, it can play DOOM well!
so this will run half life 2 if I'm not mistaken?
Silly question. Are there any 486-compatible small CPUs that could be embedded into a project instead of using an FPGA? Given that AMD, Intel and others have the ability to make 486-compatible processors currently, I would have thought you could just buy a CPU or SoC to run 486 code.
Intel did have a product like that but it's been discontinued: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark
They weren't even that bad considering the little power they needed.
When you say "credit-card-sized," I expect the thickness to be as thin as a credit card, too. Isn't the Raspberry Pi credit card sized too?
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Didn't they have the F00F bug? (Thanks, I keep misremembering) How much more Pentium do you want?
No, the Quarks did not have the f00f bug, that would have been funny though.
Silly question. Are there any 486-compatible small CPUs that could be embedded into a project instead of using an FPGA? Given that AMD, Intel and others have the ability to make 486-compatible processors currently, I would have thought you could just buy a CPU or SoC to run 486 code.
Define "486-compatible." As far as I know even intel's newest cpus can run 486 era 16-bit stuff in hardware. But, a plain answer: Via Eden boards. still use north/southbridge architecture, and are from the mid 2000's. It's just modern Windows/Linux that have discontinued the ability. Or, perhaps you have 16/32 and 32/64 and are unable to do 16bit on 64bit machines- which still boils down to "operating system." By far…
Linux isn't really relevant given the time frame.