Who still actually uses a 486?

[InflatableBuddha]

IIRC, 486/386 cpus were only discontinued by Intel a few months ago. They were still being produced for embedded computing. ATMs maybe?

I have read that 386 chips are still used in outer space because they are robust.

 

[Stumps]

I still have a i386DX-33 based system that gets regular use...as well as a Am5x86 133@160 (4x40mhz) system that see's regular use...both are setup to run older MS-DOS games.

I should add that both systems are capable of using the Internet (abiet slowly), the 386 has Win3.11 with IE 5.5 and the 5x86 has win95b with IE 5.5...both have ISA 33.6Kb/s modems.

 

[Vonkhan]

Tomahawk cruise missiles still use 386 chips ...

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: InflatableBuddha
IIRC, 486/386 cpus were only discontinued by Intel a few months ago. They were still being produced for embedded computing. ATMs maybe?

I have read that 386 chips are still used in outer space because they are robust.

386 and 486 chips where built on .5 and .35 micron process rather than current .065 and .045.... so I'd bet that alone would make them more robust.

Crazy stuff.

A human hair is anywhere between 80 - 100 microns wide...

 

[Jugernot]

Dup. post.

 

[SSSnail]

Originally posted by: Dacalo

Originally posted by: SSSnail
I had a 386, with a TURBO BUTTON YO!

Haha, same here, an AMD 386DX-40 in fact. It ran X-Wing well. I remember playing Prince of Persia on my friend's 286.

Doom ran like crap on my machine though. My friend's father worked at Intel so he got his hands on a 486DX2-66. It was blazingly fast!

I ended up upgrading to 486DX4-100 later.

PacMan with turbo on is like PacMan on crack.

 

[compuwiz1]

386 and Win 3.11 posting from work baby!

Shens, of course.

I do still have a 486 in the garage somewhere, probably still works. It has Win95 and all the wonderful patches.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
no way

the oldest chip i have at home on the shelf is a pentium 90 Mhz

i have a celeron 333 Mhz system that i could probably install linux or windows 95 on and post from

if it wanted to
which i don't

I'll see your celeron 333 system and raise you a BP6 with dual 366 celerons. Who's the king now, baby!

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: FoBoT
no way

the oldest chip i have at home on the shelf is a pentium 90 Mhz

i have a celeron 333 Mhz system that i could probably install linux or windows 95 on and post from

if it wanted to
which i don't

I'll see your celeron 333 system and raise you a BP6 with dual 366 celerons. Who's the king now, baby!

I have that mobo with a pair of 466's sitting in a box somewhere....it was a great setup for win2k way back in 2000.

 

[Rubycon]

Atari ST: Music
Sanyo MBC-550 with NEC V20 x86 compat CPU: Prom burner, BASIC(A) compiler
CCS-300 S100 based Z-80 system: boiler and HVAC controls. This sucker was loaded with 64K ram and DUAL 8" floppy drives that had shaded pole synchronous motors with more running torque than the original Vortex D1 diatom filter! :shocked:

 

[potato28]

I think my WiFi sniffer has a 486 in it, maybe the modem and router too.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Cstefan
You're usin' a 286? Don't make me laugh
Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?
You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette
You're the biggest joke on the Internet

Assuming one has to use Windows is the biggest joke on the internet.

 

[CallMeJoe]

I have a Compaq 486DX-33 still in use at work (avionics repair shop). There are DOS utilities and diagnostics that have never been updated by the manufacturers, still in use. Several of these programs actually run slower on a faster processor - so much so that I'm tempted to dig my old 386 mobo out of the attic to see how well it does.

Also, FWIW, there are aviation GPS units still in production using a 80186 main processor.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Ugh, I can't beleive I surfed the net(if you can call it that) using AOL on win95 on a 386sx 16mhz on a 2400 buad modem. I actually stood in line at midnight the night win95 went on sale, and added ram to that machine so I could run it:roll:

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
my mom still uses a 486 to word process. yes, we bought her a new core 2 duo laptop from dell with an 80GB HD and she just cant bring herself around to "get used to it."

We have a 286 sitting in the garage. nothing wrong with it, just no reason to use it. i had wing commander/ prince of persia, windows 3.0, all the good stuff

Well, I still use WordPerfect 5.1 any time I'm doing serious writing

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Cstefan
You're usin' a 286? Don't make me laugh
Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?
You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette
You're the biggest joke on the Internet

Assuming one has to use Windows is the biggest joke on the internet.

You've gotta be the dumbest newbie I've ever seen
You've got white-out all over your screen
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?

 

[Oscar1613]

last year at my summer job, i used a computer on a regular basis that had dual 5.25" floppies and started with a key :laugh: it was about the size of a dinner table and used to run some lab instrument

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
no way

the oldest chip i have at home on the shelf is a pentium 90 Mhz

i have a celeron 333 Mhz system that i could probably install linux or windows 95 on and post from

if it wanted to
which i don't

I was running windows 95 on my P75 w/ 8 megs of ram so I'm sure it isn't that bad.

 

[waffleironhead]

Ive got a hp 600c laptop, no I dont use it to surf or anything but that 75mhz proc with 16mb ram is still alive

can we say nibbles and gorilla ftw!

 

[Mucho]

I still use one at work to configure and test point-of-sale products, you would be surprised to know most point-of-sale modules still runs on DOS and OS2 base platforms.

 

[Steve]

NASA?