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Subject:Re: PC Processing Power (was Home Alone) From:"Matthew J. Cowley" <cowley -at- ARETHA -dot- JAX -dot- ORG> Date:Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:44:03 -0500
I'm a software engineer by vocation and a writer by avocation, and I do
both happily at home on my 486. IMO anything faster than a 386 is
powerful enough for most applications, certainly for word-processing and
html development. If you're interested in working with multimedia
development on the web, videos and such, you may want to get the fastest
machine you can afford; other than that, I'd say get a souped-up 486 or a
behind-the-curve pentium.
-matthew
On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, 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?
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