Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoPC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nosewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1158file-text
arrow-up1158external-linkPC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nosewww.tomshardware.comRekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square27fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMultiplexer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 days agoWatch out for your prefixes, 166 mHz would be one operation every 6 seconds. I don’t think there ever has been a CPU that slow ;-) (small letter “g” doesn’t exist as a prefix, but could be easily confused as the unit gram-Hertz)
minus-squarepolotype@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoI once made an incredibly limited cpu on paper, basically had the whole cpu in logic gate on a piece of paper. Tried to run the most basic programm on it by hand and i can assure you thet it was much slower than 166mhz XD
Watch out for your prefixes, 166 mHz would be one operation every 6 seconds.
I don’t think there ever has been a CPU that slow ;-)
(small letter “g” doesn’t exist as a prefix, but could be easily confused as the unit gram-Hertz)
I once made an incredibly limited cpu on paper, basically had the whole cpu in logic gate on a piece of paper. Tried to run the most basic programm on it by hand and i can assure you thet it was much slower than 166mhz XD
Haha )