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From: griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Operating Systems
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.152704.983@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 91 15:27:04 GMT
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peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>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.

Someone who spends 6 hours a day using a computer to search and update
databases, plus has to login to a LAN, a mini over broadband, a mainframe
over a bridge or direct-connect needs the speed /and/ multitasking!
I can throw in an IRMA or FORTE card into a 386 for the direct connect, 
but for everything else the user spends half his day starting and stopping
applications!  

We have to use MARK and RELEASE on our 3270s, which shuts down our LAN cards,
to keep its 'special' s'ware from getting trashed.  Every time he needs to
login to our LAN its like doing a 120 reset.  I can give him a 386 and IRMA
so he doesn't loose the speed of his direct connect, runs 28x faster,
even let him use Windows (gag), DesqView, or PC-MIX for 'multitasking', but
he doesn't want a new keyboard.  He'd rather bitch about how slow everything
is.

This is only one of dozens of different situations I can give you.  We
run a lot of statistical and forecasting software which would benefit.  If
your software runs faster you may spend less time looking at the CRT.
Certainly a Super VGA is easier on the eyes.  Disks are larger and faster.
Everything is better all around.

Let me quote briefly from a recent Dave Haynie post:

"..the masses aren't all that clever"


-- 
Dan Griffin
griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu