In the meantime, you may consider an older, less powerful computer, like the original Pentium, the kind that ran quiet because it didn't have much heat to remove.

This die size is much too large for this era, but about right for the original Pentium.

The original Pentium 4 was a radical design for a number of reasons, but perhaps its most striking and controversial feature was its extraordinarily deep pipeline.

Some analysts said that was not a big problem for Intel, because it can continue selling faster iterations of the original Pentium.

The study apparently showed that Intel had also violated Digital patents in the design of the original Pentium.

For a 75 MHz original Pentium, five stages is no problem.

It's relatively simple and in-order, much like the original Pentium, but it's also fairly deeply pipelined like more modern processors.

It introduced the P6 microarchitecture (sometime referred as i686) and was originally intended to replace the original Pentium in a full range of applications.

However, Pentium Pro's 16-bit performance was the same as the original Pentium.

For instance, each instruction on the original Pentium passes through the following, five-stage pipeline: