Re: Is there a version of Lynx for the Apple II/IIGS?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>> There is nothing wrong with finding a rare item at such outlets.
>> I myself got my AMD K6-III+ chips at a surplus outlet because
>> I recognized their potential.  A K6 chip with 256k on-die full
>> speed cache that clocks to 616Mhz is something special and
>> something that some users discovered when AMD got rid of
>> these.
>
>You lucked out.  Best thing I found in a thrift shop was a 486SX/25
>PC.  Best thing I found elsewhere was a discarded 486SX/33 (!) PC.

Well, it was a PC surplus store, not quite a thrift shop.  Being
such a store it was more specialized than a thrift shop but
the idea was similar.  Lots of old PC parts pulled from working
systems, old Toshiba laptops for $40-80, that kind of stuff.

Those K6-III+ chips were really quite cool though.  AMD had
shrunk the core using 0.18 micron process but the chips were
never mainstream since the success of the Athlon was
ahead of schedule.  The K6 was abandoned sooner than
expected so these K6-III+ chips were all let go of through the
unconventional channels.

It is quite fun to run my Super 7 system at 616Mhz using one
of these chips because practically no one realizes Super 7 can
go that high.  Kind of the same as putting one of the die-shrunk
65C816 chips into a ZipGS or TWGS and accelerating the
accelerator to 15Mhz.  The challenge is what counts.