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From: frank@isrnix.UUCP (Frank Burleigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MCA (was: message <1634624868@ralf>)
Message-ID: <902@isrnix.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jul 88 22:35:31 GMT
References: <9@ralf> <12400004@cpe> <562@splut.UUCP>
Reply-To: frank@isrnix.UUCP (Frank Burleigh)
Organization: Inst. for Social Research (Indiana University, 47405)
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In article <562@splut.UUCP> jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) writes:
>In article <12400004@cpe> neese@cpe.UUCP writes:
>a real paean to the alleged superiority of Tandy products.
>
>What he didn't tell you the first time around that his machine:
>>						Roy Neese
>>					UUCP @	ihnp4!sys1!cpe!neese
>                                                           ^^^
>is a system owned by Tandy's Computer Products Engineering group.
>
>Come now, Roy...didn't you want to admit that you were just plugging
>your own products?
>
>[mentions bad experience with tandy, ineptitude of tandy retailers,
inability of tandy to offer satisfactory support.]
>-- 
>Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC...>splut!< | Never ascribe to malice that which can
>uucp:       uunet!nuchat!           | adequately be explained by stupidity.
>   hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!splut!jay  +----------------------------------------
>{killer,bellcore}!tness1!           | Birthright Party '88: let's get spaced!

the tandy favoratism was noticable, but more unfortunate was the false
claim that 32 bit mca memory expansions exact a 400% performance penalty
on a model 80.  infoworld compared mca memory expansions several issues
ago, including the ast advantage/2-386.  they found that board to be equal
to the planer board memory speed.  my inquiries to other board makers abt 
this claim turn up only denials of any penalty.

also unmentioned was the newly announed model 70-a71, running at 25mhz
and using memory cache.  they may be late, but it can't be argued (as it
was) that ibm can't or won't make performance-competitive products.

-- 
 Frank C. Burleigh
 Institute for Social Research - Indiana University - Bloomington, IN 47405
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