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.
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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.
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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.Blah blah blah nick blah blah confusion, blah blah blah blah frog.Comment
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Let me guess
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)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.
Not a bad processor. Used such a system for about 18 months at my high school as an internet sharing server.
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Got it in one!
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.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)
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. 
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Re: Got it in one!
Ah, I have seen 2 types of these Cyrix chipsOriginally 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.
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
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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'.
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Yes there was a 33mHz that's what in part what the DX version was all about"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
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The manual specifically says there aren't 33MHz or 40MHz versions - I guess they must have come later.Blah blah blah nick blah blah confusion, blah blah blah blah frog.Comment
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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.<a href="http://www.unspacy.com/ryu/systems.htm">Ryu's PCs</a>Comment
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I leave my AIO Gateway, Firewall, File, Printing, Fax, and Voicemail server running 24/7, the rest of the boxen are left down overnight.Hey, Donny! We got us a German who wants to die for his country... Oblige him. - Lt. Aldo RaineComment
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Me too!Originally posted by Guru
24/7 over here!Titanium is the new bling!
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I wasn't counting my Amiga'sOriginally posted by Dilitante1
[gloat]I got Doc beat.....17 PCs in the house PLUS a MAC [/gloat]
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. MordridLast edited by Dr Mordrid; 12 August 2002, 11:47.Dr. Mordrid
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Doc, your showing your age there buddy
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