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$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] kokesh 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

It runs Doom, but unplayable speed. They should have run it as 386DX. Had one from AMD, it was running quite well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

looks like the implemented CPU (ULi M6117C) supports a coprocessor interface, so it is entirely possible that a 387sx equivalent could give it floating point capabilities. it's probably not electrically implemented on this specific device to expose the interface though. otherwise yeah no FP sucks

[–] partial_accumen 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

While an FPU (Floating Point Unit aka math coprocessor) would be nice, the 386SX is still a 16-bit CPU. The 386DX is a 32-bit CPU (and would still need a 387 for a dedicated FPU). In the 486 line SX meant no FPU, while DX meant FPU inside.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

ahhh fuck I forgot about that little stupid memory bus cheat that Intel pulled. they've been good at obfuscating their screwing of consumers thru weird naming schemes ever since they started lol

[–] ZoopZeZoop 1 points 5 days ago

I read this in R2D2's voice!