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- From: rpomeroy@aunext3.cam.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Inherited a 486/33...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.184449.16908@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 18:44:49 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.131316.5300@next.cambridge.ma.us>
- Sender: usenet@dvorak.amd.com (Usenet News)
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- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
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- In article <1992Aug31.131316.5300@next.cambridge.ma.us> simsong (Simson L.
- Garfinkel) writes:
- >>You'll want to raise it from 8MB to 16MB of memory to get decent performance.
- >>The 125MB hard disk is small; consider replacing it with a 400MB SCSI or ESDI
- >>hard drive. (SCSI is better; you'll also want an SCSI interface.)
- >>
- >>The performance of your 486/33MHZ will be roughly equal to a 25MHZ color
- >>system. Not very exciting.
- >>
- >>Don't buy anything until NeXTSTEP 486 is out, because the required hardware
- >>config might change. And don't forget to add in $1000 -> $2500 to puchase
- >>NeXTSTEP 486.
- >>
- >>All in all, you are better of selling that machine RIGHT NOW.
- >>
- >>-simson
- >>--
- >>
- >>.................................................................simson
-
- ****************Rumor alert********************
-
- Reliable sources say it WILL run on a 386 machine. Reliable sources did not
- say anything about performance.
-
- *************End rumor alert*******************
- --
- Ronald Pomeroy
- Advanced Micro Devices
- CAM Applications Group
- rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com
-