Article View: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Article #35Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
From: Erik Johnson
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 21:32
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 21:32
21 lines
2134 bytes
2134 bytes
> >Hmm, what increased cost are you referring to? Original XT's cost more than > >$5000. Don't mistake increased hardware requirements with increased cost. > >The first 486 I bought cost $3200 with a 250meg hd, 1meg video, 8meg of ram, > >14" monitor. The same money will today buy a pentium with gig+ hd, 16+ meg > >of ram, 2+ meg 32 bit video card. Quite a bargain in my book. > > Yes, but you have already blown that $3200 on the 486. Probably invested > some more cash in upgrades for it (.. It's ONLY 4 years old!! it CAN'T be > outdated yet! :) ) And now you are going to put another $3200 into a machine > that runs the "software of today" worse, comparatively, than the "Hardware of > Yesterday" ran the "software of yesterday"? And what are you going to hock > to be able to afford todo this, anyway?? :-) See my previous response to this... basically that 486 still works with basically no upgrades with Win95 for my wife to use Word6, pegasus mail and netscape. I long ago outgrew that machine (not because of any OS) because I must routinely manipulate LARGE images (80+meg). -Erik Johnson erik@phidias.colorado.edu http://phidias.colorado.edu/vgallery.html
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<3130D585.6624@phidias.colorado.edu>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!boulder!usenetReferences:
<4ef48q$rik@news.iag.net> <Supersede.Dn3sy8.CsG@iquest.net> <312B0660.63F3@mts.se> <4ghi50$2ud@hp01.redwood.nl> <4gnp0l$n86@thetics.europa.com> <312F71AE.12C9@phidias.colorado.edu> <177388BEAS85.LCADAMZ1@ulkyvm.louisville.edu>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!boulder!usenet From: Erik Johnson <erik@phidias.colorado.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,alt.sex.anal,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:32:53 -0700 Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Message-ID: <3130D585.6624@phidias.colorado.edu> References: <4ef48q$rik@news.iag.net> <Supersede.Dn3sy8.CsG@iquest.net> <312B0660.63F3@mts.se> <4ghi50$2ud@hp01.redwood.nl> <4gnp0l$n86@thetics.europa.com> <312F71AE.12C9@phidias.colorado.edu> <177388BEAS85.LCADAMZ1@ulkyvm.louisville.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: envd42.colorado.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (WinNT; I) To: Lamont Adams <LCADAMZ1@ulkyvm.louisville.edu>