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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Horsepower Needed for MS-DOS
Keywords: Are horses DOS-compatible too?
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Date: 7 Dec 90 17:16:19 GMT
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In article <6879@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes:
> As 386 PC's become the standard, software will evolve upward in
> complexity and power, and this will tax the available hardware more.

I quite agree. Should the average user be able to buy and effectively use
an O/S worthy of the name for the IBM-PC, the situation will change. But
when I said a 386 was a waste of horsepower for most DOS users, I *was*
talking of DOS, and I was talking of today's users. I don't see that
changing in the near future.

(meanwhile, I've had 5 years use out of a computer that can quite effectively
 use such additional horsepower and has all the nifty features IBM and Apple
 are still trying to get working... but that's another topic)
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