Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Fed up with MIPS
Message-ID: <6626@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 22 Oct 89 14:00:46 GMT
References: <76700077@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <2526@uceng.UC.EDU>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <2526@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) writes:
> 2. how an isolated computer is like a stationary engine used, for
> example, for pumping water;

A-men.

> The 8088-PC-bound desk clerk languishes in a mostly isolated world.

I've been saying this for years.

> Using computers to generate paper faster is like strapping a jet
> engine to a horse.

A large part of the problem is that the operating system on this 8088-based
PC was designed to allow one person to use the computer at a time. A network
is a multi-user environment, and without a multi-user computer (multitasking
with at least application-level protection) you can't make effective use of
one.
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