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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
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- From: moncrg@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. 386
- Message-ID: <vjn1bhr@rpi.edu>
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <BxFpHv.8zB@news.orst.edu> <1992Nov9.200839.27999@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:14:20 GMT
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- article <1992Nov9.200839.27999@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se writes:
- >
- >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?
- >
- does any one remember when they asked us, "who really needs a 486?"
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