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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun's Competitive Strategy (Was: Re: P1754
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Date: 6 Dec 90 03:56:17 GMT
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In article <3+_7KS1@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <2764@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>> [users] are mostly buying machines running 80286 and 80386 CPUs at 16
>> MHz or higher.
>
>But running DOS this horsepower is pointless


That is simply false. Try running Autocad or TeXing my book,
or previewing the TeX output. Or integrating 24 simultaneous linear
ODEs for a million steps. For those tasks a 20 MHz 386 is enough
power, but most certainly not too much. 

Doug McDonald


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