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Originally Posted by JamesPeters
The ability to do that would've convinced me Amiga was the best computer and I'd have bought one of those instead of my first PC. Although I held out for a while before getting a PC. As soon as I realized PCs could do things that I valued as much as, or more than standalone hardware, I was in; that was around 1996. Recording audio and MIDI data was a big factor. Also I stubbornly decided to buy components and build my first PC, install the OS, make my own dial-up connections, etc. since I figured if I were going to be maintaining the PC (and others in the future), I might as well have some idea what the things are and how they need to work. I don't regret that decision.
My performance gain from Windows to Linux may have been limited to that one computer for a reason of which I'm unaware. Still it's nice to know I'm not sacrificing performance or stability by using Linux.
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I got hired to do programming, tech support, hardware integration, and other stuff all dealing with MSDOS after my band broke up in the late 80s, but I didn't yet have anything that could run MSDOS so that was when I put a PC on a card in my Amiga. I had taught myself programming and was writing midi code for my own synths while playing in the band.
Shortly after I decided to do it right, I should have a real PC that only ran MSDOS so I built my first one from parts I bought locally. Once I realized how easy it was to build a machine, I kept upgrading more than once a year, plus my boss had me building all the PCs for our offices, and now I've built 30 or 40 machines over the years. I kind of stopped once PCs were no longer getting to be dogs with the tasks I was throwing at them, and the only reason I'm going to build an AMD 3700X soon is because every one of my Intels has this shit . . .
l1tf:Mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
mds:Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled
meltdown:Mitigation: PTI
spec_store_bypass:Mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
spectre_v1:Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
spectre_v2:Mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
VS the one AMD in the house which reads like this.
l1tf:Not affected
mds:Not affected
meltdown:Not affected
spec_store_bypass:Not affected
spectre_v1:Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
spectre_v2:Mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Four "Not affected" items with an AMD vs four exclusively Intel only "Affected" entries.