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In article <108572@bu.edu> mek@acs.bu.edu (Mark Kern) writes:

>	Well, how about the current Gateway Systems :
>
>		486DX2-66
>		256k cache

All 486's have a 256k data and instruction cache, don't they?

>		16 megs ram  (additional $320 or so)
>		2 340meg IDE local bus drives (additional $400)

Screw IDE, get SCSI or pref. SCSI II.  IDE sucks.

>		ATI Ultra Pro (16 bit local bus color with 1meg VRAM)
>		17" Nanao (Invar shadow mask, dynamic beam focusing, $700)
>		both floppies
>		mouse, windows, etc.
>		------------------------
>		$4415 (beats the heck out of an 8/250 mono turbo for $4118)

Well, it's color and faster.  But you still need an OS, and dev.
tools.  NS486 + all the tools will pump up this price quite a bit.
You also need ethernet, or ANY networking stuff for that matter. 
Plus something besides the lame PC sound capabilities, preferably with
a DSP.  All this will pump the price to over $6k.  Less if you don't
plan to develop software or hook it up to any kind of network.

For considerably less than this you can get a used color turbo slab
with more memory.  Or a new one on student discount.  Plus software
that comes with it.  Then it's just a matter of CPU speed, the 486
system will probably run about 1.5 times the speed of the color slab
at most.

-Howard

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