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From: burton@parcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A different View of the value of OS/2 - it's better than UNIX
Message-ID: <514@parcvax.Xerox.COM>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 00:04:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: parcvax.514
Posted: Fri Sep 18 00:04:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 15:53:03 EDT
References: <494@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <961@looking.UUCP> <498@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <13909@clyde.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: burton@parcvax.xerox.com.UUCP (Philip M. Burton)
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In article <13909@clyde.ATT.COM> feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) writes:
>In article <498@parcvax.Xerox.COM>, burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton) writes:
>> 
>This average Joe user that you describe---afraid to install Wordstar, or
>is frightened of backups, and does a little with 123----why would this
>user ever want a 386?  What would he do with it?  ANY multiuser, multi-
>tasking OS is going to seem like a labyrinth to oblivion to this person.
>

Perhaps this average Joe does big, big spreadsheets all day.  Now, on his
PC, this takes 25 minutes to do a re-calc.  On his AT, maybe 5 minutes.  But,
on his Compaq 386, less than 2 minutes.  (These are real numbers, drawn
from the experiences of a major San Francisco bank.)

Now, if this average Joe can get a 386 that runs DOS, that's great.  
Apparently, there are lots of Joes out there, judging by Compaq's sales of
the 386.



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