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The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving

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Re: The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving

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Post by xanathar »

h2odragon wrote: post #36
chiph wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a dual Pentium II board (made by Tyan, with an Adaptec Raid Option slot) but I don't recall ever seeing a dual P54C board. Did a mainstream motherboard maker ever release one, to your knowledge?

there was tyan, supermicro, and MSI? at least i thin my board with the dual pentium 60mhz chips was msi.

Pentium 60MHz was P5 though, not P54C ... if I'm not mistaken. IIRC the slowest P54C was the 75MHz one as they all had 1.5x multiplier or greater? Again, I wouldn't rule out my memory being wrong.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

swayvil wrote: post #12

Speaking as an artist and a programmer, has it ever struck you how utterly low it is to sit in a room making things? You are interacting with little speck of dead stuff. Staring, unmoving, practically dead yourself. Playing with a little dream. There's something deeply wrong with that. Spiritually wrong even. Sometimes I reflect and feel shame at my wastefulness.

Sounds like you're going through a bit of a nihilism phase, the futility of it all. It's cool.

Re: The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving

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Post by cubancigar11 »

swayvil wrote: post #12

Speaking as an artist and a programmer, has it ever struck you how utterly low it is to sit in a room making things? You are interacting with little speck of dead stuff. Staring, unmoving, practically dead yourself. Playing with a little dream. There's something deeply wrong with that. Spiritually wrong even. Sometimes I reflect and feel shame at my wastefulness.

Low and high are but you imposing your value system onto something that exists irrespective of it. "Low" could very well be the activity of breathing if one argues enough to show it. In reality actions don't and shouldn't exist to serve a higher purpose. Attachment with result is the cause of suffering. Attach yourself to the action.

Re: The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving

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Post by squarefoot »

This triggered a memory about the Native American code talkers employed by the US military during WWII to encode communications using their own languages which were unknown to the Axis forces. First thought: "ha! Now they're doing firmware?":)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker

Re: The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving

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Post by kragen »

Taniwha wrote: post #31

I'm building a stained glass window for our front entrance, as a sometimes chip designer it's going to be a half adder (so much much smaller than a pentium) - the big challenge is showing all the layers (si, implantation, poly, metal, vias etc) I'm only doing 1 level of metal. The result is going to be more of a thin layered sculpture than a traditional stained glass window

this sounds awesome! do you have drawings?

Re: The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving

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Post by gattilorenz »

chiph wrote: post #23
kens wrote: post #2

Author here for your obscure Pentium questions...

I had a dual Pentium II board (made by Tyan, with an Adaptec Raid Option slot) but I don't recall ever seeing a dual P54C board. Did a mainstream motherboard maker ever release one, to your knowledge?

You can find multiple of them here, with pictures too: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/?page=1&itemsPerPage=24...

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Post by OogieM »

kragen wrote: post #51
renewiltord wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So _that's_ what a Jacquard loom is. I've seen it mentioned often. Thank you.

dobbies automated looms before that

dobby looms are an automated version of draw looms. Some use a draw boy, small child in the loom itself to draw up the warps as required for the patter. Later shortened to dobby.

Re: The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving

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Post by OogieM »

h2odragon wrote: post #5

Fairly rare to be able to connect sheep with semiconductors. I wonder if anyone is working on ovine AI opportunities yet.

As a programmer and Shepherdess I can tell you that sheep have enough intelligence as is. Contrary to popular belief they are not stupid but certainly have a very different world view.
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