Post #2018405
2026-05-05 06:38 UTC
Replies (5)
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@PurpleJillybeans@kind.social 2026-05-05 06:41
I did a BIOS update on the motherboard and after that I saw a major performance improvement under DOS, but as soon as a 32-bit OS (like Win9x or Linux) starts, it slows back down to 'retreating glacier' speed. Is there something I need to do that I haven't? #AskFedi #DuckDuckFedi
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@W99@rollenspiel.social 2026-05-05 09:53
@PurpleJillybeans Oh, I used to have one of those, too. That's old stuff. You might want to try to install Debian 6 or so, that might still run. Or DamnSmallLinux. Other than that I guess that more modern CPUs might not be optimized for such old hardware any more.
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@apz@some.apz.fi 2026-05-05 13:12
@PurpleJillybeans I've had plenty back in the days, I remember them mostly running fine. Often used them for firewalls with NetBSD or FreeBSD.
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@bhtooefr@snack.social 2026-05-05 16:35
@PurpleJillybeans so there's a bug in the way those processors report CPUID, that makes some utilities think the CPU has 16 MiB of L2 cache it *actually* has 64 kiB L1$I, 64 kiB L1$D, and 64 kiB exclusive unified L2$ but I wonder if that's screwing with something performance-wise
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@kaidenshi@exquisite.social 2026-05-06 00:03
@PurpleJillybeans It's been over twenty years since I touched one, but from what I recall they were just about the worst performance you could get in a Pentium III clone at the time. I don't recall any hard numbers but I remember trying to get BeOS to run on one and it was a slideshow on the desktop. That could have been a lack of video drivers though.