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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Real System Comparisons
Message-ID: <13466@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 27 Jul 90 02:03:14 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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While I'm flame-baiting here, I figured I would start another war by asking,
for real, for an answer to the long established belief that seem pretty
prevalent these days that you can get a PC Clone, roughly equivalent to
the A3000, for less money.  I'm think whole machine here, not one particular
feature, and I think that may tend to make this comparison more difficult
for the PC fan.  But what do I know about PCs.  Let's find out; here's the
system I'm looking for:

	PC Equivalent for A3000:

	- 80386DX @ 25MHz
	- 80387DX @ 25MHz
	- 2 Megs basic, 16 Megs total 32 bit memory
	- On board 32 bit DMA-driven hard disk controller
	- 31kHz Video (plain VGA will do)
	- EISA bus with at least four slots
	- Slot for low cost 80486 add-in
	- Unoccupied serial and parallel ports
	- Microsoft or similar mouse
	- Microsoft Windows 3.0

Well, that's the best equivalent I can cook up.  It's far from perfect,
but then, an exact equivalent is impossible.  I don't think anything's way
off base here; if so, flame away.  Anyway, does such a beast exist?  What 
would it cost?  Around $3000, or can you get a Taiwan Special with all this
stuff for $1500 as lots of people seem to think.  Me, I really don't know,
and wouldn't want the PC for myself anyway, but it's an interesting 
challenge.
-- 
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