Originally posted by ExCyber@Jul 2, 2003 @ 11:19 PM
How about these:
A 486SX is a 486 whose math coprocessor failed testing and was disabled, and the 487 "math coprocessor" is actually a normal 486 in a different package that interacts with the motherboard to disable the original CPU.
Some people say that a kilobyte is 1000 bytes and a megabyte is 1000 kilobytes. Others say that a kilobyte is 1024 bytes and a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes. A "1.44MB" floppy, however, is only 1.44 megabytes if a kilobyte is 1024 bytes and a megabyte is 1000 kilobytes.
Many game systems don't really have a hard limit to the number of sprites onscreen, only the number of sprites that can occupy the same horizontal line.
USB has three transfer rates. The one designated "full speed" is actually the middle speed, not the highest speed.
The "PS/2" mode on parallel ports is actually the legitimization of a simple hack that made the original IBM parallel port cards bidirectional.
That reminds me of a few computers I've worked on.
I was reformatting an "Apex" computer, and it was ALL USB! The keyboard, mouse, and everything was USB. No parallel, PS/2, or serial.
When I went to full DOS to Fdisk and format I relized the USB keyboard wouldn't work. I knew it had to be some silly design. I ripped the computer apart, and noticed the 2 PS/2 ports covered by the back label. :bs So I cut the label very pretty like and *voila* new PS/2 ports.
I really hate this type of marketing and design.
Oh yeah, I also found pins on the Mobo for the serial port. I cut up an old ISA serial card and got the port, and wired it to the mobo.
So it actually gained a serial port too.
Recently, I done the same thing to a Packard Bell. It only had 1 USB port, which I knew was silly. I just knew a 2nd USB port was next to it. I was so confident I just went ahead and tore the label off. *tada* an extra USB port.
I suppose it was to sale this as the "lower" model. what bullshit.