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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. 386
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:34:33 GMT
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- James Hague (exuhag@exu.ericsson.se) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- I don't think that the "solution waiting for a problem" applies to
- computing horse-power, ever. PCs are now beginning to compete with
- high-end workstations, and there a plenty of applications that can
- always chew up just about any amount of computing horse-power you
- throw at them. Besides, with OSes like WNT the presentation level
- alone (never mind the actual application) benefits enormously from
- any additional throughput you can give it (although in this area
- accelerated graphics boards are an alternate and probably more
- approriate solution.)
-
- Personally, if I can get a Pentium based machine I can run Linux
- on in the price range of current high-end 486 systems, I'll buy
- it. It's likely to be less than half the price of a comparable
- RISC-based system, and plenty of people are buying those.
-
- Of course running Messy Dogs on an Pentium would be the equivalent
- of running CP/M on a Cray... ;-)
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