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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: A different View of the value of OS/2 - it's better than UNIX
Message-ID: <7080@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 14:27:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 18 14:27:05 1987
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In article <13909@clyde.ATT.COM>, Forrest Gehrke 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.

A couple of reasons.

One, he's the head of the company, so he wants the power.  Of course, he's
also probably a Bozo and we don't much care about him.

The second reason is one that I've tried to explain to people around here.
The argument goes that why do students need 80286 personal computers?
8086/8088 based systems are certainly powerful enough for the things they'll
have to do.  Personally, I've been saying they should get 80286 or 80386 based
machines.  But that's just me.

Why do these clueless people need 80386 power?  Because they are clueless!
If I don't know what I'm doing, I need a computer system that has a very
simple to understand interface.  Probably graphical.  That requires power.
If I'm a lousy speller, I need spelling and grammar checkers.  Those require
power.  In essence, our clueless user needs power because the computer has
to do more work to make him more productive.  Isn't that why we use our
personal computers?
--
"Anyway you want it,                   Peter Merchant (merchant@dartvax.UUCP)
 That's the way you need it."