Re: ZipGS 12MHz on ROM 01?

[barryn@speedway.net (Barry Nathan)]

In article <9404290444.aa09913@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu> jlee@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Joseph) writes:
>"What's the most common chip out today, dude?  386 you say?  Dude, like
>no way, isn't that the chip inside the big bread box in the boss's office?
>Yes, way!"

I read in PC Magazine or PC World a few months ago that the -286- is the
most common chip, -not- the 386.

>: been out of date for years now.  You are dying for 12 MHZ???  That is
>: pathetic...  If I had 12 MHZ I think I would die from the waiting of the
>: computer to process the information.  Face it, the Apple II had been dead, is
>
>I've died waiting for a 66 mhz computer to process info and my friend's
>Pentium HAS died from overheating.  Took it only 15 minutest too.

I've also died from how long my friend's 486/25 took to do even the
simplest things (e.g., erase a single file or load File Manager under
windoze 3.1).

On a side note, a few days ago I helped the school I go to with setup of
their new AST 486's. The computer know-the-mosts (not know-it-alls) spend
over a dozen hours trying to get a CD-ROM drive to work (Toshiba
single-speed with the latest drivers). After I spent an hour on it, I
found that I just needed to trick MSCDEX into thinking it was running
under DOS 5.0 instead of 6.2. Another problem that still exists with the
computer: it didn't come with the display driver, so it can only do VGA
graphics even though it has an SVGA chip.

In addition, my friend's IBM compatible didn't come with its display
drivers, either, and it did all sorts of weird stuff until I somehow
(accidentally) reset its CMOS.

Boy, those clones are aggravating.

Also, if a computer still fits your needs, then it isn't dead (by my
definition, anyway).
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