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  • niawashbear@mastodon.sdf.org
    Sep 20, 2026, 10:34 AM

    After some poking from users on here that they were having problems with their netbooks, I managed to get #PaleMoon working on an i586-class embedded CPU without SSE.

    By the way, the 500MHz Geode feels significantly slower than the 400MHz UltraSPARC II which I usually use for testing. Megahertz myth, innit. #NetBSD

    NetBSD's default ctwm desktop showing a Pale Moon web browser with the default retro & spartan GTK2 theme loading the NetBSD.org web page. A terminal is visible showing the CPU information, which demonstrates that it's running on a 500MHz AMD Geode with MMX and 3DNow! but no SSE.
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  • Wojopolishdub@bsd.network
    Sep 21, 2026, 4:23 AM

    @washbear the megahertz myth is real. Even in x86 land. I remember my amd 333 mhz faster feeling and performing better than my intel 500 mhz. No, not celeron either. Lol.

    Also, thanks for the hardwork!

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