>>>>>A 400 mhz Pentium II does not type any faster than a 286. And it is only minimally faster on accounting.<<<<<
Mike, I know you are a contrarian, and we love you for it, but - - well, let's just agree to disagree. A 286 is simply obsolete, unless you are running very simple software.
If your assertion is that simple software like WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS is not any faster on a 286 than on a PII, that's wrong. I do agree that WP5.1 for DOS isn't much faster on a 486. But, WordPerfect is much faster on a PII, and if you are talking about WordPerfect for Windows, there is no comparison.
These days Corel is selling WordPerfect 8.0 and you couldn't run it on a 286, even if you wanted to. It does all kinds of stuff, fancy fonts, headers, footers, spell-check, thesaurus, even HTML, better than WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, my former favorite. And it is faster. It prints faster, it saves files faster, it pulls up files faster, it spell-checks faster. I know, because I am just finishing scavenging all my old files from the old days off the old WordPerfect, and transferring them to the new machine.
Also, I am transferring my QuickBooks and Turbo-Tax from the 486 to the PII, and the PII is much faster there, too. It takes seconds to back-up and restore, versus minutes.
I just had the 286 activated to get files off it before I ditch it. As far as I am concerned, the 286 is a doorstop. The 486 is good enough for a smart typewriter, I agree, but not the 286. |
