🚀 go-pugleaf

On 4 Sep 92 20:14:56 GMT you said:
>Hi, I'm in the market for my very first PC.  I've saved and saved (for
>years) and watched the PC market as it has evolved and even better, as
>prices have fallen through the floor.  After lots of looking around and
>asking friends for recommendations, I have probably decided on a Gateway
>2000 486DX2/66mHz ISA  machine.

ISA bus?  That's penny-wise and pound foolish.  It'll more than halve
the performance of the 486DX2.  You'll end up wondering why your top of
the line CPU putters along at a slower rate than your colleagues 33 MHz
386DX machines (assuming they have real 32-bit bus architecture).  ISA
is a pure case of "you get what you pay for."

I suppose you want to run Windows?  A 486DX2/66 on an ISA bus running
Windows just might perform as well as a Mac IIci, but I'd have to see it
to believe it.

Unfortunately, IBM has failed to deliver much on the promise of MCA
(Micro Channel Architecture), so it looks like EISA has become the
viable option by default.  There's a good reason why EISA is more
expensive (and why Macintoshes outsell PS/2s).

/s Murph Sewall <Sewall@UConnVM.UConn.Edu>