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From: neese@cpe.UUCP
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Subject: Re: message <1634624868@ralf>
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Date: 30 Jun 88 15:38:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cpe.UUCP!neese    Jun 30 10:38:00 1988


And let's take it even farther.  I am constantly surprised at the ignorance
so many users show. (i.e. "IBM is state of the art and the most powerful
systems money can buy")  What a joke!  But this attitude is spread all over
corporate America.  Primarily due to the folks that do the recommendations
to buy IBM equipment.  They justify buying IBM by saying IBM is the best
you can buy because of the performance and by making statements that lead
their management to beleive that IBM is the only company that can support
their effort.  Hogwash!
Let's look at some facts:

1) When IBM introduced the PC, the industry took a giant step backwards in
performance.  Tandy was shipping a CPU that had an 8MHZ 68000 and a 4MHZ
Z80 co-processor when this 4.77MHz box hit the streets.  What a dog!
The industry is just now catching up with what was going on back in 1983 as
far as performance is concerned.
2) Now, when it appears we are finally getting back to the performance we
lost when IBM entered the forray, they introduce a Micro-Channel bus and
a 20MHZ 80386 w 1/wait state.  Here we go again.  Now while the MC bus has
some nice features, there are also some devastating things about it.  Try
plugging in a 32Bit MC Memory Board into your Model 80 and watch the
performance take a 400% hit due to the overhead of the bus.  In all the
performance comparisons I have done, the Model 80-111 measures much slower
that a 16Mhz Tandy 4000 w/SCSI HD's.  Not to mention how much slower it is
than the Compaq DeskPro 386-20.  People that think the IBM is fast must not
have ever looked at anything else.  At least the Tandy 5000MC has a dedicated
memory slot for expansion memory so it won't have to go through the MC bus,
and a memory cache controller so it won't have to run at 1 wait state.

Let's face it, there is a lot of equipment out there that can run circles
around the IBM equipment and it will always cost you less money.  I look
forward to the day thet corporate America finally wakes up and starts firing
these idiotic purchasing personnel for giving such one-sided views of the
world of CPU's.  Well I'll get off of my soapbox,....for now.

						Roy Neese
					UUCP @	ihnp4!sys1!cpe!neese

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