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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Unix (was Re: OS/2 vs A
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Date: 22 Jun 89 13:21:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Jun 22 08:21:00 1989


>A 20+ MHz '386 with a 150-300 Mb 16 ms disk drive, a tape drive
>for backup, a CAE quality high-resolution (1024x7868 or greater)
>19-inch CRT, and 16 Mb of RAM and you have around a $20K system.
>The above is a very typical CAE system.

>  You don't buy a 20+ MHz
>'386 just to run a word processor, for example.

I just decided to do so. 

> If you really
>need one of the faster '386 systems, you are either doing
>significant database or file-server stuff, or are into something
>[like CAD, etc]

Really?

I got my first 386 for general purpose use, got 32 bit compilers, 
and am now tied to 386's. For "word processing" I use TeX and
a screen previewer. To do big figures in TeX, which works well
incidentally, I need a version with megabytes of memory. It is 
sooooo pleasant not to have to wait forever to process my file
[I found TeX on an AT or a shared VAX 780 hopeless!]. So now
I am getting a 1200x1600 monitor.

Doug McDonald