Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:5394 comp.unix.sysv386:4795 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!usc!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!hydra.unm.edu!kholland From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Best PC in town to buy. Summary: I want to find out what is the best PC to buy, for cheapness. Message-ID: <1991Feb11.211534.8232@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 11 Feb 91 21:15:34 GMT References: <3061@sixhub.UUCP> Sender: kholland@hydra.unm.edu Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 28 I am coming from the Amiga world and going into the PC world (ya). I was wondering what is the best system to get, I'm looking at the Gateway 2000 386 non-cache deal (2400 dollars), and the PC brand 386sx and 386 (800 and 1500 dollars), --- I was also wondering: If a VGA card at 1024X768 with 1meg is equivalent to Super-VGA, I mean it could be a 16 color at that res and 256 at normal. How good is Winodws 3.0 compared to GeoWorks (berkeley). Do both of these programs support the max-res of the gateway 2000 I'm planning on getting or 1024X768 with 256 index colors. Is there a program that will print VGA pictures to a color printer using half-tone or ordered grey/color-scaling? Is Autodesk animator as slow as its player (maybe this should be one I should ask on comp.graphics, sorry)? Also, does anyone know how to parallel process (share work) between several CPU's, I heard that "hardware multi-tasking" is possible on the 386 and 486 based machines? Is there some special hardware I need to do this? Is there and software that I need to do this. Plus, what is micro-channel? Later, KJH (I would be surprised if any ONE could answer this. If you know the answer to one of my questions, just send me mail at "kholland@hydra.unm.edu". Thanx).