What do MURCERS do?

[Joel]

The only times my main machine gets turned off is when I'm at work during the day or when I'm away on vacation.

Joel

[Daywalker]

I switch my computers off at night or when I'm not going to be using them for a while.

I like to be around just incase something goes frazzle.

[Ribbit]

Got a 386/486 (depends how you think of it) sitting in the meter cupboard which "looks after the network" as I like to put it (it's the internet gateway, name server, mail server...) - that stays on 24/7 (uptime nearly 24 days right now). Everything else is turned on and off as needed.

[rugger]

Let me guess

Originally posted by Ribbit
Got a 386/486 (depends how you think of it) sitting in the meter cupboard which "looks after the network" as I like to put it (it's the internet gateway, name server, mail server...) - that stays on 24/7 (uptime nearly 24 days right now). Everything else is turned on and off as needed.

That 386/486 is a Cyrix 486DLC processor (It is a 486 performance cpu on a 386 motherboard, giving about 20% better performance than an 386 DX40 cpu, but not quite as fast as a 486-33. This is assuming all boards have onboard cache)

Not a bad processor. Used such a system for about 18 months at my high school as an internet sharing server.

[Ribbit]

Got it in one!

Originally posted by rugger


That 386/486 is a Cyrix 486DLC processor (It is a 486 performance cpu on a 386 motherboard, giving about 20% better performance than an 386 DX40 cpu, but not quite as fast as a 486-33. This is assuming all boards have onboard cache)

Yup. Although this one's called a '486DRx2' so it might be a bit different to what you had. It's clock-doubled (25MHz ext. / 50MHz int.) and has 1KB onboard cache, although Linux screws up if I turn the cache on - don't know why. Does 9 bogomips with cache off, and almost 20 with it on - wow! (I think the 386 it replaced did 5-6). I remember the speedup it gave running Flight Simulator 4 Those were the days.... but these days are even better.

[rugger]

Re: Got it in one!

Originally posted by Ribbit


Yup. Although this one's called a '486DRx2' so it might be a bit different to what you had. It's clock-doubled (25MHz ext. / 50MHz int.) and has 1KB onboard cache, although Linux screws up if I turn the cache on - don't know why. Does 9 bogomips with cache off, and almost 20 with it on - wow! (I think the 386 it replaced did 5-6). I remember the speedup it gave running Flight Simulator 4 Those were the days.... but these days are even better.

Ah, I have seen 2 types of these Cyrix chips

The first was the one I described above. It wasn't double clocked, but was pretty quick anyway (going about as fast as a 486-25). These were not clock doubled, but ran on 32-bit 386-DX motherboard at 33 mhz.

The second one was a clock doubled 25/50 mhz monstrocity, but it ran on a 386 SX board. Becasue these ran on terrible SX boards without caches these were actually measurably slower than the 33 mhz chips mentioned above, so I never used it much. :?

To be honest though, my favourites of that era were the 386-DX40 boards

[Ribbit]

This one runs on a 386DX board, so now you've heard of 3 types They didn't do these upgrades as fast as 40MHz - I don't think there was even a 33Mhz one. There was also one for 386SX boards called a '486SRx2'.

Must....stop....reminiscing....

[Greebe]

Yes there was a 33mHz that's what in part what the DX version was all about

[Ribbit]

The manual specifically says there aren't 33MHz or 40MHz versions - I guess they must have come later.

[Ryu Connor]

I use Suspend To RAM.

Cuts the machine off and silences the fans, but lets me get back to my desktop in about five seconds.

[MultimediaMan]

I leave my AIO Gateway, Firewall, File, Printing, Fax, and Voicemail server running 24/7, the rest of the boxen are left down overnight.

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by Guru
24/7 over here!

Me too!

[Dr Mordrid]

Originally posted by Dilitante1
[gloat]I got Doc beat.....17 PCs in the house PLUS a MAC [/gloat]

I wasn't counting my Amiga's

Still...I don't have 17, but you can up the TOTAL to 12;

2 - A3000's (one of which one is a Video Toaster)
1 - A500 (VERY tricked out and in a tower)
1 - A4000 Video Toaster

BUT then again....should I count the several C= 64's & C= 128's, C= SuperPet, MITS Altair 8800 (64k) and a couple of CP/M systems, all of which are lined up, wired and in working condition downstairs?

Hmmm...

Dr. Mordrid

[Elie]

Doc, your showing your age there buddy

MAN that's going way back LOL!