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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.194051.16591@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 19:40:51 GMT
- References: <1992Aug7.155936@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Aug7.155936@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov>, asmcclan@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Andrew S. McClanahan [DH4]) writes:
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- | DX2 is a 25mhz motherboard, a major marketing deception by Intel. I
- | wanted a 50mhz 486DX with hopes of upgrading to the 100mhz DX2.
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- Deceives the SPEC folks too, the DX2-50 runs at about 92-95% of the
- speed of the DX, and for less money, and at lower power. If you're
- saying that the speed is not quite as fast as a 50DX, that's true. But
- cost performance is better from most vendors who offer both, memory is
- 70 instead of 60, and the lower power should mean it lasts longer.
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- Was someone deceived or did someone not do their homework.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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