Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpsgwp!plim
From: plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: When will the 8088 die?
Message-ID: <3360005@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com>
Date: 3 Dec 90 02:28:01 GMT
References: <90335.202651F0O@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr
Lines: 24

/ smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith) / writes:
> 
> ... stuff deleted ....
>
> I *love* it when a software company puts out something that
> *requires* a 386 and a hard drive.  This tells me that it will
> take full advantage of the 386, be less expensive, be faster (fewer
>
Less expensive ? So far, most 386 programs are more expensive than
their 8088 or 80286 counterpart.

Software house simply wants to charge more for something that runs
on a faster machine.  Catch-22  :-) ??


Regards,     . .. ... .- -> -->## Life is fast enough as it is ........
Peter Lim.                     ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !!          >>>-------,
                               ########################################### :
E-mail:  plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM     Snail-mail:  Hewlett Packard Singapore,    :
Tel:     (065)-279-2289                      (ICDS, ICS)                   |
Telnet:        520-2289                      1150 Depot Road,           __\@/__
                                             Singapore   0410.           SPLAT !

#include <standard_disclaimer.hpp>