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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Compaq 386
Message-ID: <1191@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Nov-86 17:33:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 14 17:33:01 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Nov-86 07:43:21 EST
References: <189@lownlab.UUCP>
Organization: Kontron Electronics, Mt. View, CA
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> The Compaq 386 looks very good on paper.  Has anyone had any hands-on
> experience with it?  I'm interested in using it for an engineering application
> involving A/D conversion and a lot of mathematical processing (Fourier
> transformations, etc.).  Specific questions:
> 
> 1. Have you had any problems with peripheral devices such as A/D boards
> keeping up with the 16 MHz cpu?
> 

Haven't tried A/D boards with it yet.

> 2. How about application programs such as Lotus running at 16 MHz. Does it
> freak out?
> 

Works perfectly.  Works fast beyond belief.  Our General Manager brought one
of his spreadsheets over to load it into the Compaq 386.  It took 2 minutes
to load on his XT.  It took 5.75 seconds on the 386.

We have been running a very large (400K) application written in C on XT and
AT.  It worked perfectly on the 386, with one slight difference in the EGA
43-line mode.  (May not be the Compaq's problem -- we are still studying
other possible causes.)

> 3.  Any comments regarding the keyboard or other physical aspects of the
> machine?
> 

Get the Deskpro 286 keyboard for it.  (It's a "negative cost" option, I
believe.)  The 386 keyboard is very hard to use with control characters
because the Ctrl key is in an awkward place.

> Any information will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> NAME:	Nassib G. Chamoun                USPS:   Lown Cardiovascular Laboratory

Clayton E. Cramer