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- From: hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. 386
- Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:28:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.212859.11586@csx.cciw.ca>
- References: <BxFpHv.8zB@news.orst.edu> <1992Nov9.200839.27999@exu.ericsson.se>
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- In article <1992Nov9.200839.27999@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se writes:
- >Derek Schott writes:
- >>
- >>After watching the market trend, I have the funniest feeling that
- >>everything has about hit rock bottom. A lot of people keep saying
- >>that the introduction of the i586 is going to severely cut the
- >>prices of both the 386 and 486 machines. Although it might drop
- >>the prices at first, I don't see why it is going to cut them so
- >>much.
- >
- >Not to mention that very few people actually need a 586 (aka Pentium).
- >How many people--excepting ray-tracing fanatics and people who do
- >serious number crunching--have had any speed problems with a 33 MHz
- >486? For the mass-market, the Pentium is a solution waiting for
- >a problem (like CD-I). I can't see people scrambling to buy them,
- >unless they are one of the rising number of buzzword addicts.
-
- No... I think that UN*X and Windoze NT need every CPU cycle they can get.
-
- Every time the CPU speed increases (and memory and hard disk sizes, etc.) the
- software requirements increase to fill the gap. It never fails!
-
- If you don't ever change your software, I guess you'll never need to upgrade
- your hardware either (unless your usage increases, but that's another story).
- If you have version X of a piece of software you can bet that version X+1 will
- need more CPU time, and more memory, and more disk space...
-
- Harry
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