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- From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
- Subject: Re: What is a 386i???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.215241.18249@twg.com>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:56:40 GMT
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- > It was also pretty much of a flop. Like I told one person:
- > "imagine IBM deciding to build a PC based on the 68030 and make it
- > compatible with MS-DOS."
-
- Now you've gone and done it again. You've hurt my poor workstation's feelings!
-
- ;-) ;-)
-
- Seriously ..
-
- All I run local on this guy is an X server (X11R5 pl17), an Emacs and a
- couple of xterm's. It runs the display fast enough.. XmText widgets scroll
- at full speed over the network for instance. But if I try doing anything major
- local the screen slows down tremendously unless the X server is reniced
- to something like -15. It was way slow when X was X11R3 ...
-
- The worst part is the weirdo things they did to the system administration
- on it.
-
- <- David Herron <david@twg.com> (work) <david@davids.mmdf.com> (home)
- <-
- <- During the '80s Usenet's mantra was: "Not all the world's a VAX".
- <- During the '90s I hope it becomes: "Not all the world's DOS (ick)".
-