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New comment by Sheeplator in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

Sheeplator — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:47:59 +0000

The Pentium was great, but the 60 and 66MHz versions were not liked, they ran way too hot.

New comment by Sheeplator in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

Sheeplator — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:46:19 +0000

Nearly correct. The DX/4 100MHz had a 33MHz bus. The DX/4 75MHz had the 25MHz bus. I remember well because I had both.

New comment by Sheeplator in "Cordoomceps – Replacing an Amiga’s brain with DOOM"

Sheeplator — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 17:45:37 +0000

So the Amiga is a graphics card for Doom running on the Pi. Can we make that general purpose? Does Linux still have Amiga drivers?

New comment by Sheeplator in "Things are about to get worse for generative AI"

Sheeplator — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 13:37:58 +0000

The only thing that I would say is "clear" is that LLMs are big collections of statistical data on how we use language. That does not cross my threshold for "intelligence".

New comment by Sheeplator in "Ask HN: C++17/C++20 example projects with good style?"

Sheeplator — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 11:28:25 +0000

A list of modern C++ related resources can be found here:

https://github.com/rigtorp/awesome-modern-cpp

The list includes some powerful yet not excessively large libraries from which one can learn including:

https://github.com/skypjack/entt

https://github.com/taocpp/PEGTL

https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt