Reply to: What brand of CPUs is spiritucally closest to Chico?

[WageSlave]

I am growing an army of minature ATWs in the cupboard under the stairs. If anyone would like to see them, please drop me a line; real treat for the whole family.

[AtW]

The right answer is Via because Via's owner/CEO is a religious nut who makes all CPU codenames Bible related, ie: Nehemiah etc.

[Joe Black]

Is this another piece of the Da Vinci Code?

[Francko]

Via, because it is Roman for street, and Rome is where St Peter died wasn't it? And where the pope lives, and all those other connotations from the Holy Romans.

Quite right, Chico is a special subset of the Via technology, called Via Crucis.

[stackpole]

Please vote.

Via, because it is Roman for street, and Rome is where St Peter died wasn't it? And where the pope lives, and all those other connotations from the Holy Romans.

[TheMonkey]

Correct. My first experience with VIA was the motherboard recommended by AMD for the K6-2... it is an awesome pile of tulipe.

Maximum number of memory modules allowed: 6;

actual number of memory modules which will actually work with the chipset: 1.

Surreal.

In a fit of complete insanity, I purchased a USB 2.0 PCI card.... without noticing the dread VIA logo... took ages to make the fecker work, needed an obscure download from M$ before it eventually agreed to function.

There was even a note on the M$ site that this chipset was indeed a pile of tulipe and M$ was not going to support it for Win2k etc.

You poor soul. I made the mistake of buying one motherboard with a VIA chipset (Asus A7V266-E) and then found out that the PCI interface wasn't quite standard and my sound card just didn't work in it. Only dared to go near Athlons with an nForce chipset recently which also didn't work. I'm Intel only now

[TheMonkey]

Bearing in mind that everything I've ever encountered with the dread logo "VIA" on its ICs has been a complete and unmitigated pile of tulipe, I'd choose that one...

I'm not the only person to notice that one then.

[TheMonkey]

I think a VAX 11/780 CPU is about right.

[nobody here but us chicke]

cpu and chico

via delorosa ?

Why are we giving time and space to such a load of bollocks ?

[AtW]

Not even close, you need to think harder, key is CPUs.

[Churchill]

The answer will be relevead in due time, meanwhile just cast your vote...

Intel & the connection is Israel (Jerusalem).

[AtW]

The answer will be relevead in due time, meanwhile just cast your vote...

[wendigo100]

Alexei, I'm a bit of a thicko, I don't understand the question. Any chance of some context hereabouts?

[wc2]

It’s got to be “other” some obsolete architecture that matches his obsolete religion

[xoggoth]

The connection is much too deep for me. If I had to choose it would be a crappy old Z80.