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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Desktop workspace size, ie VGA etc.
- Message-ID: <7200@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 1992 14:57:14 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.223047.15311@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1992Aug27.025934.4262@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug27.025934.4262@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >I would, though, recommend a 386DX 40 MHz system over a 486SX 20 MHz
- >system. The 486SX is probably a slightly better choice at 25 MHz.
- >Reason? The 386DX-40 is just as fast as the 486SX-20 -- perhaps
- >slightly faster -- yet adding the math coprocessor is substantially
- >less expensive (almost by an order of magnitude last I checked).
-
- This is why my recent upgrade was to a 386-40 + 387. I was able to get the
- motherboard and coprocessor together for right at $500 (0K), and a 486-33
- (which most benchmarks I've seen rate as about the same speed as a 386-40)
- would have run about $650.
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
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