OK, this is kind of silly - P1 question

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And they also ran at something like 5v, very hot and nowhere to go from
there without cooking. Socket 5 I believe.
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Socket 5 was the same as socket 7, except it wasn't dual voltage. Would do
classic Pentium 75-200, and overdrives but no MMX.

JT
 
LOL. a man who knows nothing about cars. McLaren F1's do in excess of 80mph
in first gear, to drive it in a school zone you'd have to be idling and
riding the clutch. *Very* bad for the clutch, engine and cooling system.
It'd die within a couple of minutes, millions of dollars down the tubes. The
only way to keep a McLaren under the speed limit in a school zone would be
to push it, not drive it.
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Doh!

Nobody mentioned whether or not the car would like it! You *CAN* do it...
but it's not healthy for the car. Just remember to slap it in neutral and
idle through the school zone! : ) ...and why would someone in a McLaren
been driving through a school zone anyhow???
 
Its really not necessary that he have an anti-virus program on his
machine...nor necessary that he have any kind of real-time protection.
As a matter of fact, installing such protection may slow down his
machine considerably...depending on how you configure that software.
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If you are on broadband, you NEED realtime AV. The internet is so polluted
out there and there are so many different ways to attach a machine that
realtime AV and firewall software are a necessity these days.

If you NEVER download software and NEVER get email (and this includes online
stuff as many of the new viruses just need you to see there webpage) and run
Win95 then you MIGHT be able to stay safe... otherwise something will bite
you in the ass eventually.
 
That's AVG right? Excellent free AV software. I use it on XP and 98 so it
should work with 95.
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Bigger question though is how much stuff can be loaded and ran on a P1 box
with 16MB memory before it gets so slow that it's not at all usable.

I'd probably load it with Win98lite and skip IE or OE, no antivirus, no
firewall software (as a host-side function), then make backups more often.
 
If you are on broadband, you NEED realtime AV. The internet is so polluted
out there and there are so many different ways to attach a machine that
realtime AV and firewall software are a necessity these days.
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There is no distinction to being on broadband vs. dialup excpet percentage
of time system is online, yet these days systems are scanned often enough
that on dialup an insecurity would be found anyway.

The same typical entry points, email and sometimes browser (or warez but
that goes without saying) are same risk with or without broadband. If you
mean open ports, the first line of defense is usually enough, any
inexpensive router.

If you NEVER download software and NEVER get email (and this includes online
stuff as many of the new viruses just need you to see there webpage) and run
Win95 then you MIGHT be able to stay safe... otherwise something will bite
you in the ass eventually.
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Yet this is a very old system that is being questioned for upgrade due to
sluggishness even before considering adding MORE software, overhead.
When a system is too slow it might be better to just have antivirus
software installed but not actively scanning, and make regular backups of
anything important. Tpically a backup of OS and apps made bimonthly and
documents in a single folder or partition on a more regular basis as
warranted.
 
Socket 5 was the same as socket 7, except it wasn't dual voltage. Would do
classic Pentium 75-200, and overdrives but no MMX.

JT
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Nope, socket 5 was physically different, and socket 7 was not inherantly
dual-voltage, many boards accepted only "P54C" or lower chips that were
all single, 3.3-3.5V chips. Notation of "P55" ( Pentium MMX) support
corresponded to 2.8V support on socket 7.
 
I disagree. I've been trying to get a P60 and a P66 for my collection of
older CPUs for ages. I have all the 486's, P1's and P-Pro's except those
two.
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How much you wanna pay for postage? Have at least one or two P60
"somewere", maybe even a board for 'em. I keep meaning to throw all that
old stuff out but being older, they're towards the bottom of the stacks
and get thrown out last.
 
Nope, socket 5 was physically different, and socket 7 was not inherantly
dual-voltage, many boards accepted only "P54C" or lower chips that were
all single, 3.3-3.5V chips. Notation of "P55" ( Pentium MMX) support
corresponded to 2.8V support on socket 7.
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Should have said "basically" the same
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/char/socketSocket5-c.html
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/char/socketSocket7-c.html
forgot about the 1 extra pin in socket 5. And as it says, the Socket 7 was
designed for voltage regulation needed for MMX, but not all manufacturers
actually implemented it.

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/char/socketSocket4-c.html
was the pentium 60/66 socket.

Socket 5 processors would plug in to socket 7 motherboards. Socket 4
processors would only work in socket 4.

JT
 
If you are on broadband, you NEED realtime AV.
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Speed has little to do with it.
The internet is so polluted
out there and there are so many different ways to attach a machine that
realtime AV and firewall software are a necessity these days.
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Why? You make an anti-virus program sound like the endall in data
protection. Its not...and it was never intended to be.

Protection must include much more than just preventing incoming
intrusion. Don't forget...generally speaking, there IS no protection
against new virii...at the very beginning.
If you NEVER download software and NEVER get email (and this includes online
stuff as many of the new viruses just need you to see there webpage) and run
Win95 then you MIGHT be able to stay safe... otherwise something will bite
you in the ass eventually.
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And, eventually, you'll get a virus that will get thru...or
spyware...or ? So its really not important to protect against
those...at least not on an individual machine basis.

It IS important, however, to be able to RECOVER from such an
intrusion.

Many folks run real-time protection...even when they're not connected
to the Internet...and then complain about poor performance.

Everyone should devise their own plan for data protection. But
real-time protection is not necessary in every scenario...especially
in this gentleman's case.


Have a nice week...

Trent©

Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!
 
kony said:
There is no distinction to being on broadband vs. dialup excpet percentage
of time system is online, yet these days systems are scanned often enough
that on dialup an insecurity would be found anyway.
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I'm not arguing this part. The connections are the same as far as the
software goes. Speed doesn't make a difference in how likely you are to be
attacked/infected. The difference is that with broadband the typical usage
for the connection changes. The user actually uses the connection
differently and this is where it becomes more likely to get a bad file or a
port attack.
The same typical entry points, email and sometimes browser (or warez but
that goes without saying) are same risk with or without broadband. If you
mean open ports, the first line of defense is usually enough, any
inexpensive router.
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Routers that will deal with dialup are rare. SMC had (still has) one model
that would dial out if the WAN connection was down, but I don't know what
kind of functionality it offered through the dialup port. You also had to
have an external serial modem for this, which most folks don't have.

Software firewalls like Zonealarm (ick) will do the job, but they take
overhead and when they break will they break open or closed? Software
firewalls still have to get the data into the PC before it can processes it
and I don't trust that process either.
Yet this is a very old system that is being questioned for upgrade due to
sluggishness even before considering adding MORE software, overhead.
When a system is too slow it might be better to just have antivirus
software installed but not actively scanning, and make regular backups of
anything important. Tpically a backup of OS and apps made bimonthly and
documents in a single folder or partition on a more regular basis as
warranted.
Click to expand...

If realtime scanning affects performance noticably, then I'd agree. I know
that human nature will cause the backups to lag and the scanning to be done
less frequently than it should be, etc. so I prefer automatic processes. The
only manual process should be removing your backups from the site on a
regular basis... but at this point I don't think Grandpa is going to want to
do this (or need to). Just make him aware that if anything on the PC is
important, it should be copied elsewhere just in case.
 
Speed has little to do with it.

Most of this is answered in my reply to Kony...
Why? You make an anti-virus program sound like the endall in data
protection. Its not...and it was never intended to be.
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If more protection can be added with little hit to performance, then it
really should be in place. There's no point crippling a PC just to add a bit
more protection though. I've seen PC's with the XP firewall, McAfee firewall
and ZoneAlarm all installed... that's just silly.
And, eventually, you'll get a virus that will get thru...or
spyware...or ? So its really not important to protect against
those...at least not on an individual machine basis.

It IS important, however, to be able to RECOVER from such an
intrusion.
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Even if you backup daily, you could still lose 24 hours worth of
productivity from a recovery. And who's to say that a recovery will totally
repair the system? I remember when the Happy99 virus was alive and well...
Folks would clean the virus and then have no internet connection because of
missing Winsock files. You could restore a Ghosted image to get back to
where you were and that would recover you to that point in time, but what if
you've had a time delayed attack stored on your system for weeks... you
probably just restored it to your system as well.
Many folks run real-time protection...even when they're not connected
to the Internet...and then complain about poor performance.
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Yup... Usually the same folks with 27 icons in their system try and not a
clue what any of them are.
Everyone should devise their own plan for data protection. But
real-time protection is not necessary in every scenario...especially
in this gentleman's case.
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Everything is a matter of balance. If protection can be added with minimal
impact on performance, then it should be done. Adding more memory to his
system to allow more protection isn't a bad suggestion, assuming memory can
be found at a reasonable price.
 
...and why would someone in a McLaren
been driving through a school zone anyhow???
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Wow...like, they sure are breeding them stupid these days... *rolls eyes*
 
kony said:
How much you wanna pay for postage? Have at least one or two P60
"somewere", maybe even a board for 'em. I keep meaning to throw all
that old stuff out but being older, they're towards the bottom of the
stacks and get thrown out last.
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Whaddaya reckon it would cost to pst to New Zealand? How would you like to
be paid for the postage? My email addy can be un-mung-ed.

Cheers,
 
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