1 Dec
1997
1 Dec
'97
9:51 a.m.
At 05:26 PM 12/1/97 -0500, you wrote:
machines to new ones. F.E. one could get an old IBM
mini (System/3X) for
little or no money, but is there anything doable on it that is impossible to
do on a W****** 95 machine?
You can't heat your house with a Wintel box. 8^)
But seriously, how about supporting multiple users? I dunno much about
IBM's, but an HP3000 (like my Micro3000) can handle up to 8 users (Has 16
ports, iirc, but after 6-8 users, the system gets pretty slow.) I have yet
to find a PC database and development environment that could match what's
available (Image/KSAM, Cobol, Powerhouse, Qedit, MPEX, etc.) on the 3000.
(Though, admittedly, I haven't looked all that hard.)
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1 Dec
1 Dec
3:49 p.m.
New subject: Secondary benefits
At 17:51 12/1/97 -0600, you wrote:
You can't heat your house with a Wintel box. 8^)
It's all in your sense of proportion. Two Wintel boxes heat my walk-in
closet nicely -- only when it's downright chilly do I need to turn on the
SE/30.
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4:39 p.m.
New subject: Secondary benefits
Kip Crosby wrote:
At 17:51 12/1/97 -0600, you wrote:
Hmm. My SE/30 doesn't heat my basement alcove worth a damn. I have to
fire the TRS-80 Mod 2, the Tandy 6000 and the Sun 4/360 to get the frost
off the pumpkin, the Mod 4p and the Color Computers are no help at all.
I _gotta_ get me a good mini or two.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
You can't heat your house with a Wintel box.
8^)
It's all in your sense of proportion. Two Wintel boxes heat my walk-in
closet nicely -- only when it's downright chilly do I need to turn on the
SE/30.
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