[sldev] An experiment in paleocomputing

[Alan Grimes]

I fired up my 150 mhz Pentium MMX; 64mb ram a few minutes ago.

I ran quake, and was treated to a very responsive 20 fps... (more or
less), at 640x480.

This machine from the mid '90s was playing Quake 1 with nothing but a
linear framebuffer for graphics and beating the living $#!7 out of my
dual athlon 1.2ghz/linux on Second life... Granted linux extracts a
fairly hefty performance penalty for 3D apps but the degree of slowdown
I've been seeing is outrageous. The bus on this machine is 5x faster
than the Pentium 150, it has a video card that's faster than the sum
total of every transistor in the elder machine,

What gives?

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