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From: kens@hplsla.HP.COM (Ken Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need help in building/buying my own '386
Message-ID: <5190066@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Dec 89 20:41:12 GMT
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  Regarding the question of the 386 machine.  I'm the owner of Gateway 2000
25Mhz 386 machine with the aforementioned WD1007 controller card.  I'm very
happy with it.  I think you would be hard pressed to be able to put together
a system as cheaply as the one they sell from individual components.

  Regarding DOS 3.3 or 4.01, I'd opt for DOS 4.01 (as I did).  As a UNIX
person by day it makes no sense to me to be forced to partition one disc
into pieces and then manually manage what goes where so you don't run out
of space.  Also, I've found that 4.01 has lots of features that 3.3 doesn't
have as well as a semi-usefull dos shell.  There have been some software
utilities that had problems with DOS 4.01 but these have been minimal and
if you are starting now building your software library, they can be avoided.

  Hope this helps,

  Ken

I don't work for Gateway, I only like their:
   machines, prices, service & people.