Two Stop Bits | My first Linux-first setup was a Pentium Pro 200 on a Tyan Titan ATX motherboard...

zdw 79 days ago | parent

My first Linux-first setup was a Pentium Pro 200 on a Tyan Titan ATX motherboard, which I bought sometime in 1997. At the time and with the 16-bit perf issues and the Pentium II coming out, the prices had dropped like a rock, but for 32-bit only Linux it was great.

Over time added more memory, a second CPU, and so on, and it was a workhorse through all of college. Held onto it well into the P4 era, as most of the upgrade options would have been a departure from SMP, which felt like a miss.

eeproks 76 days ago
I had a similar experience. I shelled out for a dual CPU Intel 440fx setup with SCSI disks which was my desktop well into the P3 era, and got migrated to home server where it served for many more years. I think the PPro had the longest useful life of any processor I used.