Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!maccs!cs4g6ag
From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Brain-dead 286 - summary
Message-ID: <25FE7267.24003@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 14 Mar 90 16:33:43 GMT
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In article <29474@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@pepsi.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
$In article <25F7F56B.11734@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
$|   Maybe you don't ... have you ever tried using a program like 1-2-3 R3
$|on a 286?  Even on a 12 MHz 286, the program is a pig.  From what I've
$|heard, Word for Windows is also a pig.  There are two distinct machine
$But that doesn't have anything to do with 286 or 386. WfW doesn't (I
$believe) do anything special on a 386. I don't think 123 R3 does either.
$So getting a 386 for these programs is pointless.

   I can't agree with that, Phil.  I don't consider upgrading a CPU to
be useful only if it lets you do things you could never do before.  I
also consider it useful if it speeds up the slower things you used to
do.  Perhaps your concept of pointlessness is different from mine, and
you're quite happy to waste time with a slow program rather than get a
computer with a faster CPU.

   Personally, I can't wait to get my hands on my new 386SX system
(I'm currently using a 12 MHz 286), and it isn't because I want to
run OS/2 V2.0 or anything like that.
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Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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