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From: rdt@houxk.UUCP (R.TRAUBEN)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: PC versus DisplayWriter
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Date: Fri, 25-May-84 00:23:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 25 00:23:33 1984
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what is the difference between an IBMPC and and IBMDisplay writer?
in particular:
	1. cost
	2. execution rate
	3. native cpu
	4. amount main memory
	5. amount disk (floppy or hard)
	6. operating system
	7. inter-PC or inter-DisplayWriter communications
	  (is there rs232, proprietary LAN)
	8. are they object code compatible? 
	9. can they talk to each other?

since i tend to follow only the vax class of computers,
i am pretty niave about the "low"-end of the IBM line.

i was asked by my fiance's boss and had to admit my ignorance.
i would like to get back to him. their application is primarily
inter-city database and mail for the appeals level of the 
state court system. the database is LEXUS. 


is one a clear winner over the other??
my gut feeling is that both are insufficient to meet their needs.
i would like to hear from some people more knowledge-able than
myself on these lowend machines' characteristics.

richard
trauben