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- From: cquirke@iafrica.com (Chris Quirke)
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- Subject: Re: OS/2 for free
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 17:32:19 GMT
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- davemw@unixg.ubc.ca (Dave Manuel Weisbeck) wrote:
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- >Bingo. "A 180 Mhz P6 will operate at the equivalent of a 133 Mhz similarily
- >configured Pentium when running 16 bit applications ....at the system level
- >the P6 runs approximately 1.4 times faster on a NT system while only 1.07
- >times faster on the Windows 95 OS...includes Windows 95, which Microsoft
- >has revealed contains more 16-bit code than the company first let on."
- >-The Computer Paper, January 96.
- >Wait for Win96?, or get Cairo(next version of NT).
- Naah. Just avoid overpriced bleeding-edge Intel silicon.
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- NT if you really need the muscle, I guess.
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- SMP with cheap placeholder CPUs may be a better approach. Over here,
- the P133 has dropped in price by R2000 in two months, i.e. 2/3 the
- price; I don't think multi-processor boards will drop that fast, so if
- you can go 4 x P75 to 4 x P150 next year, may be better than
- 1 x <insert top-price Intel here> to 1 x <insert top-price Intel here>
- next year. But for most of us mortals, Win95+Am486DX4-133 is fine!
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