Release date of AMD cpus

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Dave

Is there a chart which shows approximately when the different
models of Duron and Athlon processors were released?

I can't find anything like this on the AMD site.
 
Robert Bindler said:
This includes others (Intel, Via, etc) but it should do:
http://www.tom.womack.net/x86FAQ/faq_time.html
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Very interesting chart, when you look at bus speeds
computers are little faster today than they were 10 years
ago.
I always wondered by my Sinclair Z80 (colour) seems
as good as a modern computer.
I wonder how much a Z80 cpu is these days, last I
heard was a £1 but they may have a rareity value now.
 
Robert Bindler said:
This includes others (Intel, Via, etc) but it should do:
http://www.tom.womack.net/x86FAQ/faq_time.html
Click to expand...


Very interesting chart, when you look at bus speeds
computers are little faster today than they were 10 years
ago.
I always wondered by my Sinclair Z80 (colour) seems
as good as a modern computer.
I wonder how much a Z80 cpu is these days, last I
heard was a £1 but they may have a rareity value now.

PS Why the f*ck did you change the rely groups?
 
Very interesting chart, when you look at bus speeds
computers are little faster today than they were 10 years
ago.
I always wondered by my Sinclair Z80 (colour) seems
as good as a modern computer.
Click to expand...

Of course the average gif banner on a web page is considerably larger
than the memory a Z80 can address (without paging hardware).
I wonder how much a Z80 cpu is these days, last I
heard was a £1 but they may have a rareity value now.
Click to expand...

Z80s are comming back in afor microcontroller use. You can get
practically a whole system for a couple of quid. its a Z80 based CPU
with DACs memory, the whole works on a single chip.

One thing about the Z80 was that is was a doddle to write good code
for it.
 
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This isn't written by you is it?

http://makeashorterlink.com/?C17115708
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no...
i am rather a computer newbie...(started with a p1 in late 1999)

the 386-40 is a rather newer addition to my antique software collection.
it has 16 megs of ram and runs win95 quite well.
believe it or not...by pulling a few tricks...i put it on a 40meg harddrive!

btw: most of my machines are AMD based
not knocking Intel at all...simply use AMD because they work quite well
and cost less.

btw: one comment i always get about AMD is that they run hotter than
Intel...
that's true but of course it does not mean there's anything bad about it...

i;ve had a couple of cpu cooling fans go during the past few years...
and though the cpu got too hot too touch...did not fail!

philo
 
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half_pint said:
Very interesting chart, when you look at bus speeds
computers are little faster today than they were 10 years
ago.
I always wondered by my Sinclair Z80 (colour) seems
as good as a modern computer.
I wonder how much a Z80 cpu is these days, last I
heard was a £1 but they may have a rareity value now.
Click to expand...

I think the Z80 cpu is still being made in some numbers. I know
Zilog do the eZ80 chip now...

http://www.zilog.com/products/family.asp?fam=218

And there are quite a few different versions of the Z80 cpu as well.
Mind you, the Z80 in the Spectrum was different to the one used in
the Gameboy/Colour I think.

http://www.zilog.com/products/businessline.asp?bl=274

Mind you, the only place I found someone selling Z80 chips is in this
ebay auction.

Following link is not my auction. I thought it be good to show how
much people are willing to put a bid in right now for those old cpu's
:)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3809776974&category
=50423

Not sure of the buyit now price since it got a bid but seems that at
the moment its going for £4 for 10 of them.

But yeah, they're not really that available unless you have to
contact Zilog about if they still sell those chips. Not really
called for unless they're used in white good appliances now such as
washing machines and fridges.....

Gone are the days when they were in calculators, computers, handheld
consoles and ran arcade machines in the 80's.


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Is there a chart which shows approximately when the different
models of Duron and Athlon processors were released?

I can't find anything like this on the AMD site.
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Try here: http://www.mikeshardware.co.uk

Click on the "CPU Prices" link on the left side. You can also see how
the prices of the each processor fell as newer models were introduced.

Jeff
 
Bagpuss said:
Z80s are comming back in afor microcontroller use. You can get
practically a whole system for a couple of quid. its a Z80 based CPU
with DACs memory, the whole works on a single chip.

One thing about the Z80 was that is was a doddle to write good code
for it.
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YEah but when it comes to microcontrollers, no one can beat the adoption
of the M68HC11 controller boards. Their everywhere and full of
features. The new ones have built-in ethernet.

Honeywell makes good ones too, from what I hear.
 
btw: one comment i always get about AMD is that they run hotter than
Intel...
that's true but of course it does not mean there's anything bad about it...
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....where did you hear that?

~wm
 
no...
i am rather a computer newbie...(started with a p1 in late 1999)

the 386-40 is a rather newer addition to my antique software collection.
it has 16 megs of ram and runs win95 quite well.
believe it or not...by pulling a few tricks...i put it on a 40meg harddrive!

btw: most of my machines are AMD based
not knocking Intel at all...simply use AMD because they work quite well
and cost less.

btw: one comment i always get about AMD is that they run hotter than
Intel...
that's true but of course it does not mean there's anything bad about it...

i;ve had a couple of cpu cooling fans go during the past few years...
and though the cpu got too hot too touch...did not fail!

philo
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It's not necessarily true that AMD CPUs run hotter.

The Athlon XP will idle hotter if the motherboard's BIOS disables the
bus-disconnect (or doesn't enable it, whichever way you like to look at
it) but if that is enabled the idle temp is quite lower, within reasonable
distance of a P4, though perhaps still a little hotter.

However, at full load the high-end P4 chips run hotter than Athlon XP,
including Northwood and even moreso Prescott.

Then if we consider Athlon 64, the P4 is MUCH hotter at full load and
closer, but perhaps a bit hotter at idle.

Keep in mind these are "moving targets" since each 'sink could be retail
or other and that top speed per core could be compared or equivalent
performance overall or any combination of factors. I only meant to
provide a rough estimate.
 
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