Re: life extension of old computers thanks to opensource Contiki

["Daniel Mandic" <daniel_mandic@ping.at>]

Knut Roll-Lund wrote:


> I think 80686 was a number they had already used for something
> entirely different or maybe it was another company that had used it,
> which was at least part of why they dropped the number.
> 
> Knut



Hi!



The most significant difference with the Pentium PRO is, that it have
speed-problems with "not" 32bit OS (Win9x/ME, DOS etc.). So a 200MHz
i586 is faster than the 200Mhz i686, in DOS for example, but never in
NT and so, not to mention the faster (full speed [200MHz at that time],
CPU integrated) 2nd Level cache.
They corrected that speed-behaviour with the P2 and P3 (bez MS wanted
to sell 9x/ME, I would say...), the so called P6-Core CPU´s. And the
Tualatin (though Pentium III) is again an i686, whatever this means
:-). I think it is the partly RISC build, why they call it i686.

The Pentium CORE have not been changed since the 'Microopcode P4',
which are made for Video and Audio purposes.... they have no thrust
:-)))
except the EE, but I would rather use its power for shopping and so :-)
0.22HP :-)
 

I did not know that the P4 is also having RISC parts. 





Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic