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Why Loading Bars on 80s Micros? [Byte Size] | Nostalgia Nerd

Why Loading Bars on 80s Micros? [Byte Size] | Nostalgia Nerd

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Why are Floppy Cables Twisted? [Byte Size] | Nostalgia Nerd

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What are Drivers & DLLs? [Byte Size] | Nostalgia Nerd

Today we're taking a high level look at Virtual Drivers and Dynamic Link Libraries; commonplace on operating systems since the ...

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Why is there a Pentium 60 AND 66Mhz?! [Byte Size] | Nostalgia Nerd

The first Pentium processors released by Intel way back in 1993 were 60Mhz and 66Mhz variants. But why release 2 processors ...

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What did we use before USB? | Nostalgia Nerd

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What is MMX Technology & Why Was it Flawed? [Byte Size] | Nostalgia Nerd

PCs in the late 90s would most likely have been blessed with the terms MMX Processors. Pentium MMX, Pentium II MMX.

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The 8088 was an early micro processor by Intel with an 8 bit Bus. The 8086 was an early micro processor by Intel with a 16 bit ...

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Think of this video as almost a Pentium vs. 486 reference.The Pentium processor seemed like a huge leap in performance over it's ...

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