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- From: "roger bouchard" <roger.bouchard@canrem.com>
- Subject: moving 500 to 1200,
- Message-ID: <199211.4509.24398@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "roger bouchard" <roger.bouchard@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 11 Nov 92 07:29:50 EST
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- GH>If I had gone the PC route, and started with an 8088, I could have taken
- GH>SIMMS and SCSI all the way up through '286, 386 and 486.
- GH>
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- if yhlou had gone the PC route at the 8088 level , you would have had to
- trade 3 times , 8088 to 80286 to 80386 to 80486 .
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- you would have had to go from 64k chips to 256k chips to SIMMs
- then you would have had to start with ST506 drives ( no SCSI to speak of on
- XT ( if AT ALL!!)
- so you would now have to buy an SCSI controller who are only now getting
- popular after going from st506 to IDE .
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- by all means BUY a PC , you'll be swapping machines once a year and NO
- POWER UP DEALS in the PC world . you usually JUNK the machine and start
- with a higher one .
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