Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!pepsi!phil
From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Brain-dead 286 - summary
Message-ID: <29443@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 90 19:24:52 GMT
References: <8681@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> <29405@amdcad.AMD.COM> <17965@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <38299@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <17995@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM
Reply-To: phil@pepsi.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA
Lines: 22

In article <17995@boulder.Colorado.EDU> wallwey@boulder.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM) writes:
|Sometimes a 286 can beat a 386SX at the same speed, or obviously at
|a faster rate, but is the extra approx 5% speed difference worth wasting
|your future computer investment over?

In case you haven't noticed, there's an entire industry dedicated to
making an investment in microprocessors one of the worst ones around.
As long as a 286 will run the applications you want for the next two
or three years, it will probably be the best use of your money.
Especially now that software like Windows 3.0 is coming out and you
can finally use the 286's real power.

|Also it's lack of Virtual '86 mode allowing true multitasking of real
|mode DOS applications, and lack of special memory mapping
|features.

DESQview on a 286 with EEMS does multitasking in a very useful way.


--
Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com		{uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
The Microsoft Mouse is the only mouse worth having on a PC.