davely@mcrware.UUCP (Dave Lyons) (11/14/89)
I received a question about how we liked our Gateway 2000 386 machine and couldn't get our mailer to send the reply back so I'm posting here. Hopefully it has enough general interest content to not be a complete waste of net resources. > I am planning to spring some $$$ for a Gateway 2000 386/20 next week. > I am still debating whether to spend the extra money for a RAM Cache > version. Have you been happy with your Gateway machine? I plan > on doing some fairly heavy statistical crunching, do you think > the Cache is worth my money? Thanks in advance, Dave We haven't had our machine too long (it's a 25Mhz) but so far it's been working pretty good. From what we've been able to see the cache makes a very big difference. Without the cache our operating system (OS-9000, not MS-DOS) got about ~2300 dhrystones and with it got ~3900. I don't know how much they charge for it but if it's not too much I would definitely recommend it. I've heard that people are buying 25Mhz machines with cache because they turn out to be faster than 33Mhz ones without cache. That's an unsubstantiated rumor though. I hope this helps... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Lyons - ...!sun!mcrware!davely | On Second though let's not go to My employer laughs at my opinions. | Camelot... 'Tis a silly place -------------------------------------------------------------------------