[MarkL]

Compaq’s Deskpro 486/50L will be the Houston company’s most powerful desktop system. The 486/50L will cost $11,299 to $13,999, depending on how large a hard disk drive is included, and will be widely available “in the fourth quarter” of this year...

I remember that system to this day, it was a solid performer. I installed one at Farmland Foods in KC, IIRC, with 4MB of RAM, 4Mbs IBM Token Ring, WD-1007 ESDI controller and a Micropolis 330MB hard drive! Running Netware 3, and it was a screamer. File access on that server was so much faster than the files on their AS400 (of course, the upgrade from Twin-Ax to Token Ring helped too.)

Mark

[daniel1212]

I remember that system to this day, it was a solid performer. I installed one at Farmland Foods in KC, IIRC, with 4MB of RAM, 4Mbs IBM Token Ring, WD-1007 ESDI controller and a Micropolis 330MB hard drive! Running Netware 3, and it was a screamer. File access on that server was so much faster than the files on their AS400 (of course, the upgrade from Twin-Ax to Token Ring helped too.)

Its all relative. But actually, in the most basic task of file access, opening folders and launching Notepad, i have never known a Windows OS to be as fast as Windows 9x in so doing, despite the inferior hardware. Maybe it was the Fat32 file system.

[AppyPappy]

We actually had our users booting Windows off the server. They didn’t even have Windows on the machine. That was using dual 300 meg drives.
I later paid $3000 for a 3 gig drive so we could back up 72 desktops.