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Think of this video as almost a Pentium vs. 486 reference.The Pentium processor seemed like a huge leap in performance over it's ...

CTRL ALT DELETE. Now there's a key combination we're almost all familiar with. CTRL-ALT-DEL (or the three finger salute as it's ...

The first Pentium processors released by Intel way back in 1993 were 60Mhz and 66Mhz variants. But why release 2 processors ...

DOS Extenders! Most of us are familiar with seeing DOS/4GW upon starting our favourite DOS games, but many of us didn't stop ...

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PCs in the late 90s would most likely have been blessed with the terms MMX Processors. Pentium MMX, Pentium II MMX.

Loading Screens, and loading bars; it's a question which plagued my mind for many years. Why, when loading games from audio ...

Plug & Play (PnP) was a standard introduced in the early 90s to help allocate computer resources more effectively. The past had ...

Today we're taking a high level look at Virtual Drivers and Dynamic Link Libraries; commonplace on operating systems since the ...

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Computer memory has come a long way, and the IBM PC Compatible has been at the forefront of memory technology since it's ...

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Think of this video as almost a Pentium vs. 486 reference.The Pentium processor seemed like a huge leap in performance over it's ...

How do viruses work? Computer Viruses. The scourge of the digital world. We've got Trojans, Worms, Macros, Malware, Spyware; ...

COM .BAT. EXE... these are a few of my favourite things. Ahhhh MS-DOS. A beautiful command line driven operating system ...

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You might think that all the strange i5xxx and i7xxx processor names are a recent thing, but even back in the 80s and 90s, we had ...