But this is someone saying they are "an old developer" and blogging about running an OS on old kit, in some depth, discussing what adapters they are using...
And there is no kit. No CPU, no motherboard, nothing. It's all a total fantasy. They are running a PC emulator on an M1 Mac, as far as I can see.
The author, downthread, says they were practising tech blogging.
This is the feedback!
Write about the real stuff you are using. Don't make stuff up -- EVER. No fantasy, no wishlists, no daydreaming. Use real kit, and if you can't, don't pretend.
If you are using an emulator, describe it. Show it. Say how you built it, show what options you picked, what you built it with, and how, and why.
Because this person made a bunch of stuff up, without making it clear they were making it up, and then they got the stuff they made up wrong. Even the facts and claims about the contemporary tools are wrong.
I have no clue about main loops in the Win32 API and I don't care, but I can't trust that that's right either when the rest of the post can't distinguish between a PIC and PCI, and can't count SIMM slots, and doesn't seem to know about the bits I do know.
It it the same issue as this famous Mastodon post from the end of last year:
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He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.
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This is a blog post about software development in early MS 32-bit tools. I know nothing about that.
But the blog post talks at length about 1990s hardware, something I know a lot about, and about 1990s MS operating systems, something else I know a lot about...
And that stuff is all wrong.
So it makes me not trust the bits of it that are about the stuff I don't know about, and since that is the core subject of the post, that matters.
Someone was trying to show off their knowledge, and it didn't work, and I am calling it out.
To add insult to injury he runs the PC emulator on an ... Apple. It's like putting Dracula in a Church.
But I get what you say and agree with you that it's a pointless dribble. Shows all those pictures of motherboard and CPU and Sound Blaster cards and to what purpose? It's a darn emulator! They could show the picture of an alien's butt and would make more sense, at least it would be clear it's all imagined.
Yeah and you can find the OP on LinkedIn, given the crap he posted here I wouldn't expect he'd have the brains to hide his true identity when he makes a fool of himself.
That's a very uncharitable take. More likely it's a typo (that board has PCI slots).
> EDO RAM only works on a Pentium
Not true, EDO was supported on some boards. This is the board mentioned in the article: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/asus-pvi-486sp3