AKAcastor wrote to All <=-

I received a Pocket386 today!

I will be checking that out! Cool - thank you!

For anyone who hasn't heard of Pocket386 (I have mentioned it lately,
but who listens to me), it's a new small-form factor 386 notebook sold
on AliExpress. New old stock - or possibly pulled, as in the case of these 386 CPUs - parts are combined with new parts to build a weird
little retro PC.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005542582463.html

I don't remember it, but I also spent a while OFF the BBS's - and
Facebook - and HAM - etc. But now life is settling back into a
more smooth routine, and my knees are worse, so I have more
'screentime.' :-)



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I received a Pocket386 today!

I will be checking that out! Cool - thank you!

I haven't gotten back to actually playing with my Pocket386, but I do still have that first impression of "it's pretty neat!" (just needs a serial port!!)

For anyone who hasn't heard of Pocket386 (I have mentioned it lately,
but who listens to me), it's a new small-form factor 386 notebook sold
on AliExpress. New old stock - or possibly pulled, as in the case of these 386 CPUs - parts are combined with new parts to build a weird
little retro PC.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005542582463.html

I don't remember it, but I also spent a while OFF the BBS's - and
Facebook - and HAM - etc. But now life is settling back into a
more smooth routine, and my knees are worse, so I have more
'screentime.' :-)

Sorry about the knees, trouble with knees is rough, though more screentime isn't entirely the worst situation - lots of BBSing to keep up on! :) I hope you're well and have plenty of time for fun projects.


Chris/akacastor

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AKAcastor wrote to Jimmylogan <=-

I don't remember it, but I also spent a while OFF the BBS's - and
Facebook - and HAM - etc. But now life is settling back into a
more smooth routine, and my knees are worse, so I have more
'screentime.' :-)

Sorry about the knees, trouble with knees is rough, though more
screentime isn't entirely the worst situation - lots of BBSing to keep
up on! :) I hope you're well and have plenty of time for fun projects.

Thanks. Gel shots every so often work wonders...

I have a Ham radio in the house now - working on getting an antenna on a nice tall pole/tower.

I have fallen behind on my Bible Study and working on my blog as a result
of more screen time, and I have to balance that, but otherwise it's been
fun. :-) I'm making contact with people on the air and on FB that I had
lost touch with. :-)

If you're interested -

https://jimmylogan.substack.com





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Thanks. Gel shots every so often work wonders...

It's been years since I had Jello shots! Delicious.

I have a Ham radio in the house now - working on getting
an antenna on a nice tall pole/tower.

I haven't gotten into radio myself but I do appreciate hearing about the interesting equipment and infrastructure involved.


Chris/akacastor

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i think the 386 is too modern for me xD you can run much more stuff on a 386 than a 286. like netbsd! XD

if only they made a pocket 286 :>

--mary4 (Victoria Crenshaw) the 286 enthusiast

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i think the 386 is too modern for me xD you can run much
more stuff on a 386 than a 286. like netbsd! XD

16 bits does seem more than enough, was 32 bits ever really necessary?

if only they made a pocket 286 :>

I agree that would be an interesting machine! I think it's possible, if the developer happens to find a big stash of 286 chips, so we can keep hoping at least.


Chris/akacastor


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Re: Re: Pocket386 is here!
By: AKAcastor to Mary4 on Thu Jun 20 2024 22:40:28

16 bits does seem more than enough, was 32 bits ever really necessary?

I do have one example :)

When the mighty Acorn were deciding what to do after the 6502-based BBC micro, they assessed a bunch of 16 bit processors of the era and were pretty unimpressed, finding them all deficient in some way.

They looked at making their own processor and it soon occurred to them that the biggest bottleneck in current computers was memory access. It was slow and pushing data around a byte at a time multiplied the wait times. So if they were going to build their own processor, why not jump straight to 32 bits and quadruple the memory bandwidth?

And that's how we got the ARM...

BobW
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