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To: stockman_scott who wrote (106642)	3/4/1999 2:18:00 AM
From: Sig	Respond to of 176387

<<<< Yet, I would NEVER buy CPQ on price. Quality and service mean ALOT to me (and to many high tech buyers) <ggg>>>> Bought my first Dell in 1993. Used it perhaps 6 hours per day running some very repetitious but not mathematically complicated computations ( horse race data, actually). Used Qbasic. Wrote code lines similar to: If s<3 then if Y<4 then if d<6 and d>30 then x=x+1. Goto 120+ nn There were around 2000 lines of instructions total. Running at 25 MHz it took about 7 minutes to run just one race thru though the sequences. When finished it would print out the results and go on to the next horse. I would often let it run all night, produce 20 feet of printed results. Summary: In over three years of using the Dell in that manner, making untold calculations, it never failed nor missed a decimal point unless it was my faulty input. Intel inside, you know. Computers are here to stay. Does any accountant or banker want to go back to paper and pencil when a computer can run thru a years accumulation of records and highlight an error??? When one error can equal $500 or much more, or untold hours of frustration I cannot see why anyone would try to save a few hundred dollars by using a chip that is not as thoroughly tested or proven as an Intel. Well OK, so perhaps the AMD chips are well used and I would not mind using them for less critical programs. But they would have to have some uniquely better speed or capability, rather than merely a lower price. (If something works, don't mess with it) Sig