1996 I was still using an Atari ST (with 8, not 16 MHz…), end of 96 I got a Pentium 100 with 16 MB, switched to a Pentium 200 MMX and later to an overclocked K6-2@400 MHz in the same socket.
End of 2001 I got the same Athlon XP 1600+ as you.
Motherboard supported both SD- and DDR-RAM, so could reuse my old 192 MB :-)
Agree with the SSDs, only significant perceived performance boost during the last 25 years (although multicore is in some special parallelized usecases also significant, e.g. when building software).
Almost the same as for me!
1996 I was still using an Atari ST (with 8, not 16 MHz…), end of 96 I got a Pentium 100 with 16 MB, switched to a Pentium 200 MMX and later to an overclocked K6-2@400 MHz in the same socket.
End of 2001 I got the same Athlon XP 1600+ as you.
Motherboard supported both SD- and DDR-RAM, so could reuse my old 192 MB :-)
Agree with the SSDs, only significant perceived performance boost during the last 25 years (although multicore is in some special parallelized usecases also significant, e.g. when building software).