I call it Xorg.

My dad was big on Novell, using our computers at home as his test bed. I did so many things to mess with it and he seemed to not appreciate the learning experience.

This was really interesting.. Thanks for doing this!

Being from the wrong side of the pond, I don't have access to much micro / acorn hardware. Love getting these peeks.

So was there much of a performance difference then between the Pentium Pro and the Pentium MMX? (Not the II or III but the Pentium MMX) - I did have an MMX 200Mhz back in the day but always wanted to have a Pro system if only because 2+ CPU's = Fun times... and bragging rights.

The 'transputer' seems like it was way ahead of its time! 32 bit chips in 1985, using parallel processing and a language that was optimised for it. Parts of it sounded very modern.

This guy really knows his stuff. I think he wine the prize as the most knowledgeable and most entertaining KZfaq creator ever.

I used OS/2 Warp on a vintage pc once it was really interesting

When Intel stopped producing the Pentium Pro, I was approached by many companies still wanting them for their supercomputers, but the more I approached distributors and such the more they were looking for them too! Intel could have sold much more of them!

Can't understand if it was a lemon. My PentiumPro 180 overcloccked to 233MHz ran Quake timedemo at twice the speed than a friends 233 MHz K6.

Have you ever tried doing a captain Picard impersonation?

I had an indigo 2 with Solid Impact as a desktop at work!

The full speed L2 had me dreaming of a PPro back in tge day. Couldn't afford it sadly. But my trusty P133 is external L2 cache served me well until P2 came out.

Intel gets distracted with an engineering disaster long enough for AMD to come back and embarrass them? Certainly that’s the type of mistake you only make once…

Great device but wonders quite close as do many of these new accelerators of why not just dump the whole amiga pcb and let the pi do everything?

6:50 : MINITEL 🥖🗼🍷

Seeing all this DEC love makes me really happy. My mom worked for the company throughout most of my childhood, and when DEC was bought out, it was like there was a death in the family.

30 years or so ago we tried some ARM assembler after x86... gzus kraist what a difference. Simple elegance after the horror of intel

Lutris open gaming platform is one you didn't mention it works better than wine and sometimes when proton doesn't not used it much . I got lucky back when microsoft released a 3 pak of windows 7 for only 99 dollars saying it a upgrade for families with more than one pc too bad they didn't keep that thinking going they might have survived if anyone didn't notice yet ms is dying a slow death and will soon be irrelevant in the market

I ran a Fidonet node in 1992. Today, I work with OpenShift and Kubernetes. I can not believe I'm in the middle of the Venn diagram. sort of. 😮 Brill video, cheers!

Gee Yew Eye? Is this AI generated?

Its a mistery how DOS and windows became the Staple OS, being so unfinished and incomplete, considering there were things much better suited. My late Dad (apple II peripheral manufacturer) used to say Apple II miracle was due to its expansion slots and the possibility to be tinkered. And soon Apple killed it, removing all the slots and not even allowing the user to open its case. This decision favoured IBM PC standard that had much smaller acceptance, but geeks migrated to it instantly while apple insisted in releasing expensive and closed systems, that appealed more to a vanity or rich american market. Although having apple a much more finished and of Good Taste OS. (as Jobs used to say).

Besides that Netscape would get very slow crash and burn constantly in windows 98 due to some wizardry.

Not it was not

I used the OS/2 server because Lotus Notes version 3 ran on OS/2 and Windows NT and the Windows NT server was new at the time and the pre-Warp OS/2 server was proven stable. Many BBS servers ran OS/2 to run multiple DOS sessions and Windows 3.1 didn't do that. Windows 3.1 and earlier was a GUI on top of DOS.

Is PCBWay's major business sponsoring KZfaq or stealing people's PCB designs and selling them to the Chinese?

The overlap is far from just you; a lot of us older Infra guys grew up in the BBS scene, and it was great seeing you address how to use modern infra for old-school BBSes. Thanks for the good time!

It was never a contender. If you unplugged a network cable the network would crash... Bloody awful...

microops are in use since 8086, not since Pentium

"Well, it's not like some rando company no one's heard of will reverse-engineer our proprietary technology in a totally maliciously-compliant and legally novel way..." >COMPAQ heavy breathing intensifies...

I'm glad that Colossus had a tele-typewriter. I can't imagine using anything else in that era. I've programmed mainframe with a modified true teletype. No screens until later.

I have NEVER EVER heard "Adobe" pronounced with just two syllables before.

Too rosy. While the Octane was released in 1997, with standard Pentium MMX as the common user era, The Octane 2 was released in 2000. Computers had Vodoos 2 and Vodoo3 (just released) and Nvidia TNT2 Ultra. They could run Doom and even Quake III at that speed in full screen. Octane2 shined in Memory and capable of heavy duty hard 3d tasks that those machines could not. Video Memory of the Nvidia was 32MB where the Octane could have up to 8GB of RAM in the year 2000. Most pentium III motherboards had a maximun of 512MB. And just the brand new, being 256MB of RAM the maximum most motherboards had.

Linux running faster and more efficiently than Windows on the same hardware... some things never change!

I wanted to hit dislike because of all the PTSD of making the XFree86 work on badly supported hardware (But I didn't, good video)

There was no Google in 1994

OpenGL has stayed arround Becasue it’s truely universal.

The ability to run X over ssh is legit awesome

You could have asked to my french friend who has a small channel called Rodrik Studio, he has this 286 card also and did a video about it few years back.

"If you connected a modem to a dumb serial terminal" That's exactly how I first got on BBSes in 1986 - a 300 baud modem and an ADM3A dumb serial terminal. I lived in a small rural community, but we had a huge local online community (comparatively). About a dozen BBSes and several hundred users in the local calling area. Unfortunately we never had anything like Fidonet that would connect us to other BBS communities. One of the biggest local BBSes had an annual summer party where all the users could meet each other. Good times.

When it comes to SPARC, I have a bit of an obscure history that I am 100% use none of you have ever heard of before. An Iranian company name Parse Semiconductor actually made a bunch of small, embedded-oriented SPARC CPUs in Iran. Yes, Iran, country in the middle east Iran. This obscure bit of history is almost completely lost nowadays lol.

Thanks for this fantastic video! I was completely unaware of this and I will not try now to build a DOS gaming system with my pentium pro system 🙂 I remember that a Pentium Pro was high on my wishlist back in the 90s but after spending my school holidays working I had to settle for a dual pentium MMX as the pro was just too expensive. But my whole bubble was talking about the speed improvements but I was a Linux user since 1997 so nobody talked about the downside on DOS and Windows software.

Man! Fist time watching, this was very nice and interesting, thank you a lot! And well soon!

I used to have a teletype in my bedroom (when I was a kid), it came with its own sound deadening enclosure which made it bearable to live with.

😂 peri Fractic Retro Recipies always have a New Way to describe What PCB stands for. Days joke within The first 60 seconds of The movie

Since you mentioned Elite, Alexander the OK did an excellent video on it, and it's a fascinating deep dive into the challenges facing a programmer in the age of the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. The game with the border (name escapes me at time of writing) reminded me of the game Revs, which got around memory limitations by using video memory to store data in the sky and then tricking the display into showing that area in blue. If the game crashed, the sky would be replaced with garbage.

I always heard nothing but good things. Then again my friend are the types that run modern software on dumpster hardware tossed out of corporate environments. A quad Pentium pro system running XP pro was not only a powerhouse, but also kept you nice and warm on a cold winter night!

I remember my mother used to work at the main office for a regional bank back in the late 90s. They still used the big single reels of tape. Whole room full of them, one wall of tapes always spooling and unspooling.

It sold so poorly, you had this brand new boxed, after 28 years, wow. It was a Lemon, 'coz it was a flawed design, ShIntel and their dumb mistakes, Itanium/Itanic was another and many more, like selling a 8088 CPU or so, as a Microcontroller, etc; they're flawed period, not well thought out ideas and even a worse implementation. Your background music is too loud and you need to vocalize better so what you're saying is clearer

The biggest problem bbs is it needs pbx or much more land line with modems if not only one line with modem when one person connected no one got connected because the line busy. Then internet came out ftp solve this issue