01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) (10/20/89)
Several users on my site have fast 386 machines. The problem is that most codes do not support memory beyond 640K. Thus, a 4 meg 386 has over 3 megs of useless RAM. PC people are always proud of fast 386's. With the lack of a common interface for applications (Word Perfect, dBASE, LOTUS, ChiWriter, etc.have no relationship to one another) huge amounts of time are wasted trying to pass data between applications. Who the hell cares if a number crunch takes 7 seconds instead of 21 when it takes 1/2 hour to move the result to a second application. Until PCs have a dominant common interface that allows rapid passing of data between appplications PCs will remain the dogs of the computing world. A survey has shown that in business, the average number of applications used by PC users is 1, the average by Mac users is 4. Why? Learning one PC appl does not tell you anything about the next. Learning one Mac appl or one GEM appl totally prepares you for the next ones. Sorry PC users, speed of processing is not the only determinant of productivity!
pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) (10/23/89)
01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) writes: >Several users on my site have fast 386 machines. The problem is that most >codes do not support memory beyond 640K. Thus, a 4 meg 386 has over 3 megs >of useless RAM. You talk about the limitations of PC's, but you really mean those of MS-DOS. There are ways of making a 386 PC very useful; installing MS-DOS on it is not one of them. -- Pim Zandbergen internet : pim@cti-software.nl CTI Software BV uucp : ..!uunet!ctisbv!pim Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70 phone : +31 70 542302 2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands fax : +31 70 512837