Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Operating Systems Message-ID: <1991May31.120106.5009@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 31 May 91 12:01:06 GMT References: <870@mixcom.COM> <1991May30.075316.11040@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991May31.040236.2950@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 21 In article <1991May31.040236.2950@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin) writes: > But the /user/ is out in left field somewhere. I have tried to > get people where I work to upgrade from an XT or 3270 to a 386 or > at least a 286. I can put one on their desk in an hour, free to > them (big company) out of my stock, but they won't do it! Usually > because the keyboard is a little different or something. Never mind > that it runs 28x faster. Sheesh... Why do they need something that's 28x faster? Most of the stuff people use DOS PCs for they don't need but an 8088. You know what I have on my desk at work? An HP 150, with 256K of RAM and 2 floppies. Why? Because I don't *need* anything more. Most of the time it's turned off and I'm using a dumb terminal anyway, and it runs Lotus (which we use for some reports) just fine. I could get a 386 in a minute, since I'm in the O/S support group, but why make the company spend the money if I'm not going to benefit? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .