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@calango@programming.dev on programming.dev Open parent
Thanks for asking...
I use arch btw
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@maxmalrichtig@discuss.tchncs.de on discuss.tchncs.de Open parent
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@pelya@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent
People are boasting about Arch, but my first open-source OS was FreeBSD 4.2, fitting on a single CD-ROM. It included a tiny base system and C compiler, and practically every other package had to be compiled from source, using the ‘ports’ system, which was just a collection of makefiles, one for each package. And you had to be careful to use gmake instead of make, because the default Make was BSD-specific tool incompatible with most of open-source software, which targeted Linux. And you had to make sure to use GNU versions of grep, sed, and awk, and remove all bashisms from shell scripts, because /bin/sh was of course incompatible with bash. Package manager? What package manager? Just run suand then make install. And my PC was AMD K6, and it had Turbo button, which did absolutely nothing. And I was very proud of my TEAC CD drive.
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@OwOarchist__dup_68352@pawb.social on pawb.social Open parent
and it had Turbo button, which did absolutely nothing These old ‘turbo’ buttons actually did do something – they limited your CPU clock speed. Because some old games (and perhaps other software) relied on counting CPU cycles for timing the game. The faster your CPU, the faster the game would run, and the faster things in the game would happen. When CPUs got too fast for this, such games became unplayable because everything was happening in such fast-forward speed that the player could never hope to keep up. The counter-intuitively named ‘turbo’ button would bridge a jumper on the motherboard and change your CPU clock speed to a lower value, slowing it down so these old style games could still run at a reasonable, playable pace. Ironically enough, the ‘turbo’ button made your PC slower.
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@pelya@lemmy.world · Mar 10
The PC case with Turbo button was originally 486-DX, but there was no place on the new K6 motherboard to plug it into.
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