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Poll: The best CPU ever

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looks like it's tbird in the lead....i'm really surprised people voted for the cyrix chips...ha ha ha...lol
 
the x86 isn't an open design, it was pretty well closed by intel, but when computers started popping up all over the place there was a huge demand for x86 chips, and intel didn't have enough manufacturing capabilites (didn't have any to start, via is fabless, for example) so they licensed it out to anyone who had fab capacity. thats how amd was able to make ia32 processors, and why intel's suit was dismissed when they sued over the k5 and k6, and also why amd had to license mmx from intel. amd isn't able to make iz64 processors, they don't have a license.
 
JonJon-

You know, when I first wrote my reply I said "make Windows work" but I decided someone would say "Windows works?" so I didn't.

I though "workable" meant pretty good, useful,etc..

Still someone has to jump on me!

I thought you would have "got it."

Did you ever run Windows on a pre-Pentium 486? Not the DX4 75's plus in speed but the old ones topping out at 66MHz.

It was a pretty painful experience. Opening a CorelDraw 3 file took forever. Forget about a 3D transform. Better go read a book.

When I got my first Pentium, Windows actually became usefull. There was some "snap" in open Windows, programs loaded in a reaonable amount of time. Pentiums were okay with old 3.11. I only felt the need to upgrade when '95 came out.

Now you may deny the significance of Windows and that's your opinion, I'm just saying that part of the explosion in software and operating system usefullness was due to the original Pentium processor. Plus it's the first processor to break the 100MHz mark!

Even today, a 200+ Pentium system with enough memory and a decent hard drive could be used for most business work.
 
I'll defienetly agree to that one hulk but i felt it my civic duty as a windows hater to critize what you said. i meant no offence personally.....and yes i do use 98SE just b/c there is no other viable option for a gamer...🙁
 
for all of you who are sick of x86 32 bit design i added two new choices for you guys to vote for, itanium and sledgehammer. i also added p4 for those of you who just can't get enough 32 bit x86.....keep the posts commin
 
Elfenix: x86 is an open design, it is not proprietary to any systems manufacturer, such as Macs, Amiga's, and Atari's were and it is easily upgradeable. It was also deemed as an "Open architecture" in the 80's, perhaps you were too young to remember.
 
Celeron 366A@550 X 2, best bang for the buck!! Well, if you wanna talk about power, there are going to be bunch of super CPU out there. But for an averge Joe like me, $110 (1 year ago prices) for two CPU running on a $150 dual mobo running at 550 beats any system out there in terms of price performance, even today. I will say Duron/Thunderbird is the best if they can do SMP!
 
i guess cyrix and them didn't pay intel anything. it is open in the sense that anyone can attempt to make a compatible processor, i guess, and they can even try to extend the set (the mx instructions, not mmx, come to mind). not open like linux is, though. of course, its a little harder to produce a microprocessor than a linux dist. a lot of the later bits of x86 aren't open, like mmx, sse and sse2, and the supporting hardware signalling isn't either (gtl+) so not just anyone can make a chipset.
 
The purpose of open architecture is to get more people to design things for it. Once multiple mfg's start using x86, it becomes more popular, so demand for x86 chips increases, which helps ensure Intel's success.
 
thou i lean towards the Z80 (still p;lay my gameboys), the most inovative cpu would've been the first transitor micor-processor. It marked the beginning of the end for them giant vaccum tube computors that took up an entire building.

I think it had a name and manufacturer (inventor?) but i forgot. I doubt it was a retail chip thou. it waz prolly a research thing.
 
the top ten reasons the original pentium was the best?

#1.000000000009123212342
oops... that great floating point error they had... guess thats not a very good #1

that joke was told to me by a mac guy way back when computer stores still had a mac section 😉
 
In what way have Compaq screwed up the Alpha family.
IMO they havent really gotten a chance to either screw it up, nor make it better yet.
 
NFS4 hit the nail on the head... Celeron 300A @ 450 Hands Down!

Given the time period it came out, compared to the VERY EXPENSIVE PII 450 (I think it was like $600 compared to $150 for Cleron)

There's Never been anything come close to the deal we got with that chip! I ran one for 2 years! 😉
 
If you take the "best" litterally, we would never come to an answer since the best is always just the cutting edge of whats available today and better is whats out tommorow. However, if I had to name a specific chip/family it would be without a doubt the 680xx series motorola. As Sandorski mentioned earlier, it powered the Amiga/ST/Macs of the mid 80s to mid 90s and in its heyday (mid to late 80s) it could womp anything intel put into a machine. It was also used in the Genisis and I think Atari Jaguar... and I am sure other machines I neglect to remember I am pretty sure it is still in production today as well.

Super chip.

Eric
 
I cast my vote for the vic20... If I remember right, you could replace your 8088 with on of these puppies, and speed things up quite nicely. Also a 68010, which I bought for about 20bux and replaced my 68000 chip in my Amiga 500 for a good performance boost as well.
 
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