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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: PC hardware (was: Fed up with MIPS)
Message-ID: <290@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 89 16:37:33 GMT
References: <76700077@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <2526@uceng.UC.EDU> <6626@ficc.uu.net> <1419@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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In article <1419@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>[uses XT's and AT's running PC/IX]
>
>  Not that I'd ever go back, but the hardware is capable of more than
>MS-DOS will ever get out of it.

I glad somebody finally said that.  I recently got a 286 portable as my
home computer.  Normally, I work with UNIX/XENIX on larger systems but
now I was facing MS-DOS for my own personal projects.  The first thing
I did was get all the hardware manuals for the various controllers/
adapters/timers/interrupt-arbitrators in the box.  I was plesantly surprised
at all the power that MS-DOS blatantly ignores.  Sure, it's not a CRAY,
but I have a new respect for the PC class hardware.

-- 
Scott Amspoker
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM
(505) 345-5232
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