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- From: wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe)
- Subject: Re: IBM AS/400 is the world's slowest computer
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 00:30:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.003022.25532@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Dec20.221103.13995@ksmith.uucp> <1992Dec21.141558.18626@rchland.ibm.com> <id.HD1W.X03@ferranti.com>
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- In article <id.HD1W.X03@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
-
- >I'd hope it'd run pretty damn well, since we've had up to 10 users on a 286
- >doing software development... which is about 30 times slower than the 486,
- >with more demanding users.
- >
- >Now I won't say I was happy with the performance on the 286, but the current
- >systems with moderately old 386es are adequate, and our 486 box screams.
-
- Maybe I *really* am dumber than a box of dirt, but why, in this day of
- networking, would anyone do team development on a single box when it would
- appear that team development on networked single-user boxes would be a lot
- more efficient? Why do we still need multi-user boxes except to support
- obsolete business practices?
-
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