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- From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: 1200/4000 pricing
- Message-ID: <C042pB.2nF@utstat.toronto.edu>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <1hr0b2INNb7c@mozz.unh.edu> <1992Dec30.073816.12648@utstat.toronto.edu> <1hteqfINN27n@mozz.unh.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:43:59 GMT
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- In article <1hteqfINN27n@mozz.unh.edu> ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:
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- [ ]
- >
- > Depends on what you are doing with it. It certainly doesn't have poor
- > graphics and sound to me. Why are PC users misguided by the way?
-
- VGA is ok, not great. There is no sound standard on the PC. Basically the
- closest thing you'll get is the SB, not even the SB-Pro, SB-16, etc...
-
- As for the PC world in general, it has led most people to believe that
- spreadsheets, wordprocessing and databases are the things computers should
- be doing. As such, it has settled on systems that do these operations
- as quickly and inexpensively as possible which is why DOS apps still outsell
- even Windows one (although it's finally getting close) and which is why
- you need things like QEMM, etc...People being exposed to multimedia on a
- PC will simply see little of note in computing. The things just aren't very
- interesting, and companies that have tried to make them interesting are
- having a hard time of it. The 486 I have is set up to be as interesting as
- a PC could possibly be at this time. Yet few people who visit our home find
- the thing of interest, which is not what I can say about every other system I
- have.
-
- Had it not been for the PC we would have sound, motion, better TV/computer
- interaction, etc...for a very reasonable price. As it is the 486 has taken
- over the desktop and we have all these rather unpleasant things sitting
- around demoing Wolfenstein3D...It's a nightmare.
-
- Philip McDunnough
- University of Toronto
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
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