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Subject:Re: PC Processing Power (was Home Alone) From:Kevin Montgomery <kmontgomery -at- LOGICON -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 28 Mar 1997 10:14:23 -0800
At 12:34 PM 3/27/97 MST, Ron Sering CDS wrote:
>Mitch Berg made reference to his P100 home PC. I'm now in the market
>for a new machine myself, and as usual the older technology is
>vastly less expensive than top of the line. Is the performance of a
>Pentium 120 or 133 still adequate for tech writing tasks, such as
>help or web page development, or CBT applications?
A faster machine really pays off. I have a new P200 with 32MB of RAM and a
3 gigglebyte drive on my desk. It crashes just as frequently as my old
machine (both on Windows 3.11), but it reboots so much faster. Over the
course of a day, those minutes add up!
-Kevin
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