IBM Blue Lightning: World’s Fastest 386?

Re:IBM Blue Lightning: World’s Fastest 386? by cbsmith on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:30AM (#36916940)

I remember these. I used to sell computers back in the day, and the DLC3's were notoriously "different" and therefore "buggy" with certain software. Not as bad as the later Blue Lightning chips that were based on Cyrix designs, but still...

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Re:IBM Blue Lightning: World’s Fastest 386? by manual89 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:26AM (#36917482)

Back in the day I came across a PC port of Mortal Kombat II. The box had a label specifically stating that it would not run on the AMD CPUs of its day...

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Re:IBM Blue Lightning: World’s Fastest 386? by agumonkey on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:48AM (#36918900)

It's funny how these days were forcing you to make choices, and people had to make it appealing. Now it's anything anywhere anytime and it feels like a swamp.

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Re:IBM Blue Lightning: World’s Fastest 386? by jacquesm on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:31AM (#36919172)

'This site is best experienced in Chrome[+]' ...

+ Or IE, or Netscape.

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