wilson@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Samuel M. Wilson) (12/14/90)
does anyone have strong opinions for or against Dell's 386 line? Also, does anyone have experience with the 310, 325, or 333, which might be useful to one, like me, getting his hands on such a machine? Thanks. Sam Wilson [wilson@ix1.cc.utexas.edu]
DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu (David Barr) (12/15/90)
In article <41379@ut-emx.uucp>, wilson@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Samuel M. Wilson) says: >does anyone have strong opinions for or against Dell's 386 line? >Also, does anyone have experience with the 310, 325, or 333, which >might be useful to one, like me, getting his hands on such a machine? >Thanks. I'm typing to you now from a Dell 310. I love it. I got the optional 100MB IDE hard drive and I'm glad i paid the extra money. Also I got the Super VGA, which is silly NOT to get these days if you can afford a VGA. Also I got 4MB RAM. --- David Barr - Penn State CAC Student Consultant, Student Programmer DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu | dsbarr@endor.cs.psu.edu barr@barrstl.scol.pa.us |...psuvax1!hogbbs!barrstl!barr
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (12/15/90)
In article <41379@ut-emx.uucp> wilson@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Samuel M. Wilson) writes: | does anyone have strong opinions for or against Dell's 386 line? | Also, does anyone have experience with the 310, 325, or 333, which | might be useful to one, like me, getting his hands on such a machine? We use Dell's at work in fairly large quantities, and have found the Dell ISA systems to be very solid and reliable. The on-site service on new machines is nice, and the vendor seems to stand behind them very well. My sole complaint is that on systems which have the serial ports on the motherboard, the autoconfig program tends to disable the 2nd serial port is it is active at reboot. After that you must power cycle to get it back. Newer versions have this in CMOS config, and towers have a reset button, so I don't think there's a problem on newer machines. The only time it bites me is installing a new kernel, if I forget to disable the serial port before rebooting. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me