From lr1009@ln1.lincolnnet.net Tue Feb 3 17:08:00 1998 Status: O X-Status: Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 17:08:00 -0600 (CST) From: "Barbara A. Dwyer" Reply-To: "Barbara A. Dwyer" To: fredboy@aol.com Subject: )homework( Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0__=VsWYDETED8WPYRHj6UNKunelLOtvMaAM0euzvfyQAmxdSh9wgdSg1EqV" Content-ID: --0__=VsWYDETED8WPYRHj6UNKunelLOtvMaAM0euzvfyQAmxdSh9wgdSg1EqV Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Ricky Im sending you this from work, please dont email me back at this address use slverdom. As far as your project goes thats a tough one. If its a visual you want to make try doing/drawing a early trasnsistor from the 1930s-1940s all the way to the current size which is quite small. Maybe explain how many transisters it took to run say your dads machine back in the 1940s/50s(thousands of tubes about five inches high and an inch wide). For a machine to do what your dads machine does back in 1940 the machine would have to be the size of your house. Not to mention how big only one transister would be. Those same transisters now are minute and fit on a chip one inch square and are the size of dads machine Maybe a simple demonstration or drawing of how technology has been able to make things smaller would be cool. In your lifetime you will have a computer that will fit in your pocket and it will be faster than anything in todays technology. Just some ideas. Let me know if I can help and if you received this message. Uncle Jerry ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 07:56:47 -0500 From: Erik.Melzow@cyrix.com To: lr1009@lincolnnet.net Subject: Re: mmx cyrix166 chip Cyrix uses its own unique microcode and register instructions. If the codes for Cyrix Id instructions are not written into the software then you have the Id problem you are facing. This is from the Microsoft Knowledge base (http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q156/4/37.htm) and summarizes the problem pretty well: ?The Cyrix CPUs were developed and released after the algorithm used by Windows 95 to detect CPUs was finished. Windows 95 does not have the information necessary to recognize the chip. NexGen and other non-Intel chips may be reported in a similar manner. OSR2 recognizes most non-Intel CPUs. This does not affect the processing power of the CPU while running Windows 95. Some programs (mostly games) look for a Pentium CPU and may report that you must have a Pentium-class CPU in order to run the program. Many of these programs will operate normally despite this error message. Contact the program's manufacturer for a possible resolution if you encounter problems trying to run any program that requires a Pentium processor.? Microsoft has corrected the id problem in the new OEM release of Windows 95 (PPK/OSR2) where it is identified as ?Cyrix Instead?. Unfortunately this is currently the only form the fix is available in so it can only be obtained with new systems. It will up to Microsoft when and if they will make this available for everyone. In the meantime we will continue to work with software companies to correct any problems which may arise because of this issue.9 To ask that Microsoft makes this fix available, you can go to: http://www.microsoft.com/support/feedback/mswish.htm and submit a request. PS There is an unofficial ?fix? available on the internet, but it has some problems of it?s own. I believe you can find it at http://www.alternativecpu.com, but we do not recommend using it. This fools Win95 into thinking that you actually have a Pentium chip rather than a Pentium class or 6x86. Some programs will try to use Pentium specific code which may cause some problems (i.e. crashes, data loss). You are, of course, free to try this patch, but we cannot guarantee the results (you can always remove it if it doesn?t work). If you are having a problem, it would be preferable to contact the maker of the program and see if they have a fix. (Embedded image moved lr1009@lincolnnet.net to file: 09/27/97 03:09 PM PIC18096.PCX) To: tech support cc: (bcc: TechMail) Subject: mmx cyrix166 chip I purchased the above chip today and noticed that in Win95 under control panel-systems it reads the newchip as a 486. Upon bootup it reads the correct chip. What is wrong. Please respond to JScamps@juno.com. my name is Jerry Scampini and I purchased this chip from American Logic in Chicago heights Illinois Thanks --0__=VsWYDETED8WPYRHj6UNKunelLOtvMaAM0euzvfyQAmxdSh9wgdSg1EqV--