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- From: johnwu@netcom.com (John Wu)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. 386
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.230304.29747@netcom.com>
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- References: <BxFpHv.8zB@news.orst.edu> <1992Nov9.200839.27999@exu.ericsson.se> <vjn1bhr@rpi.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:03:04 GMT
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- In article <vjn1bhr@rpi.edu> moncrg@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff) writes:
- >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?"
- >
- Or from the November 25, 1986 issue of PC Mag...
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- "Certainly not everyone is going to need or want a 386 PC. Fast 80286 PC's
- will become the new office-automation standard...." ^^^^
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