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intel vs. amd

A few of us tried to focus on the vintage part of AMD and Intel, before someone stepped in telling about the differences of today. Oh well.
 
CP/M User said:
alexkerhead wrote:

> Media and multitasking, intel would win, gaming the
> amd 64 would win, and the xp would lose to both the
> 64 and P4 at almost everything.

> I know, I have owned all of those systems, of which I
> kept the P4 for multitasking and such.

Nope, I'd scrap all that & simply use one of those console
thingy's for Gaming - it's the only way!

If you insist on a computer, then it has to be DOS or CP/M for
games - there's just no way you can possibly run a game on one
of those GUI thingy's - eventually it kills the machine, use
DOS (or CP/M). Everything else is merely bells & whistles.

CP/M User.
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<chanting><waving pistol around>...CLI, Si...GUI, No! CLI, Si...GUI, No!...

--T
 
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Not total domination, just to push the pointy-clickey folks aside enough to make room for some real computin' on an equal level, more-or-less. I mean, when's the last time you saw a new 'killer app' for DOS come out? We need to band together and make ourselves heard. Let 'em know we're tired of being pushed aside and ignored! We're mad as hell and we ain't go-...<falling off from soap-box>...ugh...

--T
 
Terry Yager wrote:

> Not total domination, just to push the pointy-clickey
> folks aside enough to make room for some real
> computin' on an equal level, more-or-less. I mean,
> when's the last time you saw a new 'killer app' for
> DOS come out? We need to band together and make
> ourselves heard. Let 'em know we're tired of being
> pushed aside and ignored! We're mad as hell and we
> ain't go-...<falling off from soap-box>...ugh...

Too right, unless you want to revive GEM! Smash some
Windows! :)

Na - if the community were still using DOS - we certainally
wouldn't be using these 2 Ghz+ machines!

If assembly was the primary language found in schools & used
by Computer Programmers, we'd certainally wouldn't need a
computer with 1Gb Memory - or better still think of the
possibilites of giving DOS access to this memory & video &
write some Kick butt games. It's certainally possible.

CP/M User.
 
Terry Yager wrote:

> Yes, I'm certain that 3D under DOS on a multi-GHz
> machine is doable.

Yeah well, not sure how true 3D you can get. Early 2002 I
ported a program - using Turbo Pascal 3 which appears to be
3D. In the Doom sense I guess it's true to. This was a virtual
Landscape featurning Oceans, Islands, Mountains & Lakes, all
done in 64k for CP/M-86 V1.1! Even by CP/M's standards that
program blows away what you can do in CP/M!

CP/M User.
 
Yeah, I realize that there's you and J. Elliot, and a few others who are still cranking-out some neat stuff for CP/M, that's why I specifically mentioned DOS (which is not necessarily my weapon-of-choice).

--T
 
Hm-okay, so now this whole thread has travelled from General Discussions, via General Off-Topic into Humor, and suddenly a comparison of AMD and Intel is a humorous thing to do? :-?
 
Carlsson,

We're having a little churn in moderator land ... Mostly trying to figure out the policy on what is on topic, off topic, and just needs to be deleted. Please ignore the hiccups while we straighten policy out.

Terry moved it here to Humor. I'm going to move it back to General off-topic, and hopefully it will stay there for a while. :)
 
mbbrutman said:
Terry moved it here to Humor. I'm going to move it back to General off-topic, and hopefully it will stay there for a while. :)
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I thought moving it to humor was the joke??!! :rolleyes:
 
mbbrutman said:
Carlsson,

Terry moved it here to Humor. I'm going to move it back to General off-topic, and hopefully it will stay there for a while. :)
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Don't mind me, I just had a minor 'Psychotic Episode' last night. Yeah, that's it...blame it on mental illness...The voice of 'Rumor Control' took possesion of me...yeah...ok...daDebil made me do it...


--T
 
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Terry Yager wrote:

> Yeah, I realize that there's you and J. Elliot, and a
> few others who are still cranking-out some neat stuff
> for CP/M, that's why I specifically mentioned DOS
> (which is not necessarily my weapon-of-choice).

Oh well good, cause here's your real enermy:

but I was hoping more about pixelated smut than CPM ;D
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They can't even get the name right!

Yeah, poor DOS needs a boot in to get back at GUI. It's good
to see some once DOS Shareware making into the Freeware arena
- but it's stuff done in the last 10 years, we need new fresh
programs, Web Browsers & new TSRs to handle new hardwares.
Aparantly USB Jump Drives have been on the list of work ins
for DOS - which sounds good - a Windows solution to USB was to
upgrade to 98 - not good. Now we could really do with improved
Security & Internet for programs like Arachne in DOS.

Some new games to whip Windows on the back be good too. Unlike
CP/M, DOS has the advantage of having heaps of Programming
Languages available - for nothing! The sad news is CP/M-86
could certainally do with a few more. One language I picked up
for DOS is an interesting BASIC like C like program called
Moonrock (which produces 8088 programs), works well under DOS
- though porting code to CP/M is real tricky - cause this
language takes your source & puts it into Assembly & is
assemblied using Arrow Assembler (another Free DOS Assembler)
- which relies heavily on INT 21h DOS Interrupt Calls to get
the stuff going (not easy to translate to CP/M - even though
INT 224 in CP/M caters for some of the DOS stuff).

CP/M User.
 
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