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- From: howard@netcom.com (Howard Berkey)
- Subject: Re: NS 486: Begin the Quest
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.221240.4412@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1993Jan27.210733.107936@zeus.calpoly.edu> <108572@bu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:12:40 GMT
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- In article <108572@bu.edu> mek@acs.bu.edu (Mark Kern) writes:
-
- > Well, how about the current Gateway Systems :
- >
- > 486DX2-66
- > 256k cache
-
- All 486's have a 256k data and instruction cache, don't they?
-
- > 16 megs ram (additional $320 or so)
- > 2 340meg IDE local bus drives (additional $400)
-
- Screw IDE, get SCSI or pref. SCSI II. IDE sucks.
-
- > ATI Ultra Pro (16 bit local bus color with 1meg VRAM)
- > 17" Nanao (Invar shadow mask, dynamic beam focusing, $700)
- > both floppies
- > mouse, windows, etc.
- > ------------------------
- > $4415 (beats the heck out of an 8/250 mono turbo for $4118)
-
- Well, it's color and faster. But you still need an OS, and dev.
- tools. NS486 + all the tools will pump up this price quite a bit.
- You also need ethernet, or ANY networking stuff for that matter.
- Plus something besides the lame PC sound capabilities, preferably with
- a DSP. All this will pump the price to over $6k. Less if you don't
- plan to develop software or hook it up to any kind of network.
-
- For considerably less than this you can get a used color turbo slab
- with more memory. Or a new one on student discount. Plus software
- that comes with it. Then it's just a matter of CPU speed, the 486
- system will probably run about 1.5 times the speed of the color slab
- at most.
-
- -Howard
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- Howard Berkey howard@netcom.com
- What? ME a megalomaniac? In your DREAMS, monkey-man!
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