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Old 09-23-2006, 04:54 PM   #2
NatCh
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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
Certainly the new handhelds must have the processing power of early PC's....
My first IBM compatible was an 8 Mhz (with turbo enabled) machine with 512 kb of RAM and no hard drive, and a 640X480 HGA monitor. (for you youngin's: CGA, HGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA, XGA, whatever-the-heck-it-is-now-GA )

My first Pilot (the Pilot 5000, March of '96), by comparison, had 512 Mb of RAM, I don't remember the processor speed, but I'm sure it was some faster than 8 Mhz ... 33 Mhz, maybe?

I say it's about time that we had a DOS emulator. I just hope they can slow it down enough to play my old games....
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