Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks

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From: Iskandar Taib
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:37

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In article <1992Dec11.020835.20864@cs.brown.edu> cs123052@cs.brown.edu (Michael Lee) writes:
>>>> how cheap a IIsi is these days...I'm talking top of the line here, and
>>>> a 486/50 with everything can be had for well under 3k).
>>
>>
>>>You said earlier that you paid $4200.00 for your dream 486 with everything!!
>>
>>
>>Yeah.. he's probably got a CD ROM drive, a 19 inch monitor, a Pro Audio Spec-
>>trum 16 card, a gigabyte Fast SCSI drive, 32 Megs of RAM, a ATI Graphics Ul-
>>tra video card, EISA...
>>
>Who makes this one? K-Mart?  Just purchase a Gateway 2000 tower w/ CD rom
>sound card and 15" monitor. 230MB IDE (SCSI...?) 8 MB ram w/ ATI ultra card
>ISA w/ two localbus (PDS) slots.  What that run me? about $3600

Ever hear the term "being facetious"?







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