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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Brain-Dead 286 ?
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Date: 1 Mar 90 17:40:27 GMT
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In article <1640066@hpspcoi.HP.COM> mlau@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Mel Lau) writes:
|If you ever decided that you wanted to switch to the far side and
|decide to run Unix instead of MSDOS, what are you gonna do with that
|286 ??  Therefore you should consider the future of software in making
|your hardware investment....

Of course, a 286 motherboard can be had for well under $200. If you use
it for a couple of years, the price of a 486 will probably drop a lot
more than the cost of that 286 motherboard. So you would end up saving
money.

DON'T INVEST IN MICROPROCESSORS. We are doing our best to make it a
lousy investment.


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Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com		{uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
A PC without DESQview is like Unix without ^Z.