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- > >Hmm, what increased cost are you referring to? Original XT's cost more than
- > >$5000. Don't mistake increased hardware requirements with increased cost.
- > >The first 486 I bought cost $3200 with a 250meg hd, 1meg video, 8meg of ram,
- > >14" monitor. The same money will today buy a pentium with gig+ hd, 16+ meg
- > >of ram, 2+ meg 32 bit video card. Quite a bargain in my book.
- >
- > Yes, but you have already blown that $3200 on the 486. Probably invested
- > some more cash in upgrades for it (.. It's ONLY 4 years old!! it CAN'T be
- > outdated yet! :) ) And now you are going to put another $3200 into a machine
- > that runs the "software of today" worse, comparatively, than the "Hardware of
- > Yesterday" ran the "software of yesterday"? And what are you going to hock
- > to be able to afford todo this, anyway?? :-)
-
- See my previous response to this... basically that 486 still works with basically
- no upgrades with Win95 for my wife to use Word6, pegasus mail and netscape. I
- long ago outgrew that machine (not because of any OS) because I must routinely
- manipulate LARGE images (80+meg).
-
- -Erik Johnson
- erik@phidias.colorado.edu
- http://phidias.colorado.edu/vgallery.html
-