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Re:Apollo DN10000: Quad CPU/128Mb RAM workstation from 1988 ... by hypercube33 on Sunday July 21, 2024 @11:55PM (#41030801)
In 98 I ordered a p3 500mhz with 128mb and planned to upgrade to 384mb. before it even shipped out to me Intel announced the 550mhz irrc or 10% faster. two years later at least 50% faster with the 700mhz and copper mine.

Things moved rapidly back then.

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Re:Apollo DN10000: Quad CPU/128Mb RAM workstation from 1988 ... by rasz on Monday July 22, 2024 @11:25AM (#41035525)
500 was released in February 99. 550 4 months later, 700 five more months later. $700 worth of CPU performance from February 1999 could be had in a low end March 2000 system with $130 CPU. In 2001 500MHz system was already obsolete.
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Re:Apollo DN10000: Quad CPU/128Mb RAM workstation from 1988 ... by cellularmitosis on Monday July 22, 2024 @01:49PM (#41037275)
Yeah. My first PC build was in 98: PII 300MHz / 128MB RAM. No way a P3 500 was available at the time.
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