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From: abm88@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Morley A.B.)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The CPU with 3 brains---486 compatibility with 8008
Message-ID: <794@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Nov 90 14:53:01 GMT
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In <6704@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes:

>What good is an OS or application that fits in 6KB, if it requires a
>super-expert to run it, if a user spends more time on the telephone and
>with the manual than getting results from the computer, and if it gives
>such illuminating error messages as "ERR xmbr843"?

Quite right, but what really winds me up is an OS or application that
requires a super-expert ... manuals ...  cryptic error messages ... etc
yet still fills up a 100Meg hard disc and struggles to run in under 4Mb.
Sadly the computer I'm using now suffers from this. I'm not keen on UNIX
by the way. Contrast this with Sidekick for the PC which is small and
reasonably easy to use.

Andrew Morley, abm88@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)