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From: REISERT@VICTIM.enet.dec.com (Jim -- LTN1-2/H03 -- DTN 226-6905 24-Jan-1990 1057)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: recommendations wanted
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Date: 24 Jan 90 16:55:43 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <183@b8.INGR.COM>, paulj@b8.INGR.COM (Joey Paul x4129 ) writes...
 
>This machine will be doing a considerable amount of number crunching/disk
>accessing etc....Should she go with a 386?
 
No, she should go with a 486 :-)
 
Yes, she  should  get  at  least  a  386,  preferably  with a floating point
coprocessor.   Northgate  has  20  MHz  systems  for around 3K monochrome w/
coprocessor,  68  Meg  hard  disk and both kinds of floppies ("Country *and*
Western").   A  cache would probably help too, but I'm now past my own level
of incompetence.
 
jim
 
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