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- From: u895027@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Mark Mackey)
- Subject: HELP: What's the PERFECT system ($$ no object)
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- Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:33:33 GMT
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- The subject line says it all. Someone I know is getting a new IBM-compat.
- machine from their work: cost not a problem. The machine will be used
- for heavy numbercrunching (5 MB spreadsheets, that sort of thing) but
- not necessarity to run Windows or any other GUI.
- The primary concern is speed. What sort of things should I be looking
- for? I know a bit about IBMs but ISA/EISA, local bus etc. etc. leave
- me a bit in the dark. So, what sort of system should I be looking for?
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- Mark Mackey | "I think therefore I am" - Descartes.
- u895027@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au | "I think I think therefore perhaps I am"
- E-mail should be accompanied by | - a more cautious philosophical outlook.
- $1000 in unmarked $5 notes, | "I drink to unthink, which proves that I
- preferably in a brown paper bag. | think" - not the famous Ly Tin Wheedle.
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