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[Lexicographer]

Does anyone here read Icon in the Saturday SMH? If so you should be familiar with that section on the first inside page, to the lower right is a little section for dead techs (like analogue phones, commodore 64s etc). Hold this thought.

Today I was getting dinner from a chinese restaurant (Winston! ) and picked up this really old movie magazine from June 1997. I flipped it open and there I saw an ad for a pager, you may remember it, called the "Trakka". Remember that 1997 was about two years before people started getting phones en mass (1999) and so cells were quite expensive and unreliable (only Telstra and a bit of Optus). Do you think Icon should hear about the "Trakka"? I'm wondering when it died though. It was so stupid, you had to use a pay phone to find out what people wanted. The lifespan shown would probably be 1997 - 1998.

Anyway, do you guys have any other obsolute bits of hardware that you've stumbled across lately? Just curious.

 

[deyveed]

Trakka didn't even start
Nobody got that damn thing
Its useless

 

[Lexicographer]

Didn't start? You're kidding! I though there must have been a few people running around with that little piece of plastic shit...

Well, obviously not right not, but you know.

 

[Winston]

*kicks Lexi out of the forum* go back to ur forum and spam there heheh

 

[Lexicographer]

Pfft this isn't spam. I'm trying to start discussion that DOESN'T involve pc vs mac or intel vs athlon. Seems like I'm pulling it off and YOU aren't Winston!

Speaking of which, is Athlon cheaper? Should I get it for my new computer? And when is WinXP-64 being released, early or late next year?

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by Lexicographer
Pfft this isn't spam. I'm trying to start discussion that DOESN'T involve pc vs mac or intel vs athlon. Seems like I'm pulling it off and YOU aren't Winston!

Speaking of which, is Athlon cheaper? Should I get it for my new computer? And when is WinXP-64 being released, early or late next year?

AMD's are cheaper

WinXP 64 Bit has been released like 1 yr ago

Why would you want it when you need a 64 bit processor to run it?

 

[copious]

obsolete hardware aye. i cant think of any hardware at the moment but i was cleaning the shed the other day and found 3 of my brothers now useless tamagochis. Now theres a flashback!

 

[Lexicographer]

Originally posted by Winston
AMD's are cheaper

WinXP 64 Bit has been released like 1 yr ago

Why would you want it when you need a 64 bit processor to run it?

Are you sure it came out a year ago? I was reading icon and they said it comes out NEXT year. Send me a link Winston!

And I'm building a new computer, so I might as well get a 64bit processor anyway eh. It'll have to last after all. Anyway, if AMDs are cheaper, are they STILL cheaper when I include the 3 turbofans to go with it?

 

[Lexicographer]

Originally posted by copious
obsolete hardware aye. i cant think of any hardware at the moment but i was cleaning the shed the other day and found 3 of my brothers now useless tamagochis. Now theres a flashback!

Haha tamagotchi! The only thing left from THAT fad are those awful digimon things, but now they're the size of a truck.

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by Lexicographer
Are you sure it came out a year ago? I was reading icon and they said it comes out NEXT year. Send me a link Winston!

And I'm building a new computer, so I might as well get a 64bit processor anyway eh. It'll have to last after all. Anyway, if AMDs are cheaper, are they STILL cheaper when I include the 3 turbofans to go with it?

lol no warez you b00b.

errrr i duno what you're reading, don't know what your reading, but i've got win xp 64 legit copy in front of me


and wtf are u talking about 3 fans, :S

 

[freaking_out]

hey whats the difference b/w 64 bit and 32bit windows ?

 

[Lexicographer]

WinXP 64 is designed to utilise a 64bit processor most efficiently. WinXP 32...isn't.

Originally posted by Winston
lol no warez you b00b.

I was talking about a news link you idiot mod! But if you like you can just burn me a copy and give it to me with that other disc.

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by Lexicographer
WinXP 64 is designed to utilise a 64bit processor most efficiently. WinXP 32...isn't. I was talking about a news link you idiot mod! But if you like you can just burn me a copy and give it to me with that other disc.

Get lost you horny jap mod

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by Lexicographer
WinXP 64 is designed to utilise a 64bit processor most efficiently. WinXP 32...isn't. I was talking about a news link you idiot mod! But if you like you can just burn me a copy and give it to me with that other disc.

so whats the diff. b/w 32bit and 64 bit processor?

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by Lexicographer
WinXP 64 is designed to utilise a 64bit processor most efficiently. WinXP 32...isn't. I was talking about a news link you idiot mod! But if you like you can just burn me a copy and give it to me with that other disc.

so whats the diff. b/w 32bit and 64 bit processor?

 

[crazylilmonkee]

omg tamagotchi's! hahaha
i had the dodgyass ones when i was in yr6 and the battery never survived for more than 5 days.. i never got to see my dino grow

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by freaking_out
so whats the diff. b/w 32bit and 64 bit processor?

Better multi-tasking, it's good for servers, right now it's mainly used for servers anyway, but it's very soon going to migrate on to desktop PC's, think of your standard 32 bit as a traffic highway, if it's doubled the highway will be wider, and longer, and able to fit more traffic, much like data can be processed faster.

 

[Lexicographer]

Bah, you quote from all the techie magazines, but get it wrong!

Think of the M4. Now pretend its 4 lanes are a 32-bits. Double the 4 lanes (8 lanes) and it's now 64-bits. This means faster traffic (data) flow, more cars (information) can travel (be processed) at once, to more destinations (applications).

Doesn't change the length of the M4 though. You could apply the same analogy to processor speed (speed limit) but 32/64 doesn't really affect this.

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by Lexicographer
Bah, you quote from all the techie magazines, but get it wrong!

Think of the M4. Now pretend its 4 lanes are a 32-bits. Double the 4 lanes (8 lanes) and it's now 64-bits. This means faster traffic (data) flow, more cars (information) can travel (be processed) at once, to more destinations (applications).

Doesn't change the length of the M4 though. You could apply the same analogy to processor speed (speed limit) but 32/64 doesn't really affect this.

That's basically the same as what i said you idiot, but i think you actually quoted from a mag, while i wrote it off the top of my head, 64 bit is just double the power of 32 bit if you wanted to think of it simply like that, it's not a very prevalent type of CPU in home usage, so i wouldn't worry too much about it, but it's soon going to be a big bang with more improvements.

I'd also like to add is it's intended use is to extend current x86 CPU architecture to another level because currently the standard 32 bit processors can only handle up to 4 gigs of memory so the 64 bit is in it's attempt to surpass this limit, it's a much of an advancement, but there isn't alot of applications designed specifically to take use of 64 bit's ability, i know microsoft is gradually under taking changes and making 64 bit version applications as well, but for now 64 bit is backwards compatible, but it's not worth the money for now.

 

[Lexicographer]

What the hell? Just because I have better manipulation of English I quote from a magazine? NO! I can actually think my analogies through before posting them, you ersatz mod.

Go learn some syntax! All your base!