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- From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (Murph Sewall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
- Subject: Re: Adding 3rd party memory to PC's
- Message-ID: <9209080704.AA28909@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 02:37:56 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Connecticut's Business School
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- On 4 Sep 92 20:14:56 GMT you said:
- >Hi, I'm in the market for my very first PC. I've saved and saved (for
- >years) and watched the PC market as it has evolved and even better, as
- >prices have fallen through the floor. After lots of looking around and
- >asking friends for recommendations, I have probably decided on a Gateway
- >2000 486DX2/66mHz ISA machine.
-
- ISA bus? That's penny-wise and pound foolish. It'll more than halve
- the performance of the 486DX2. You'll end up wondering why your top of
- the line CPU putters along at a slower rate than your colleagues 33 MHz
- 386DX machines (assuming they have real 32-bit bus architecture). ISA
- is a pure case of "you get what you pay for."
-
- I suppose you want to run Windows? A 486DX2/66 on an ISA bus running
- Windows just might perform as well as a Mac IIci, but I'd have to see it
- to believe it.
-
- Unfortunately, IBM has failed to deliver much on the promise of MCA
- (Micro Channel Architecture), so it looks like EISA has become the
- viable option by default. There's a good reason why EISA is more
- expensive (and why Macintoshes outsell PS/2s).
-
- /s Murph Sewall <Sewall@UConnVM.UConn.Edu>
-