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Re: My gradebook for Linux
Good (for the vendor) sales people. Uninformed purchasers.
I see vendors specify similar machines for what amounts to telnet
stations. Gotta have the latest. Personally, under Windows, I haven't
seen any speed increase since about a PII 200 or so.
Jim Wildman
jawildman@cfanet.com
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Culp, David wrote:
>
> Which brings up another little topic. Seems my school likes to buy the
> nearly top of the line stuff. Here at my workstation Ive got a 400Mhz
> Pentium II with 128 MB of RAM and photo quality color inkhet printer
> etc...... Is all that necessary? Most teachers I know only use their
> workstation for two reasons, email and wordprocessing. Why do they do this?
> Seems a waste of money but someone keeps telling schools they MUST have the
> top of the line systems. Who is telling them this and why are they
> listening. For the price they paid for my workstation they could have got
> three 300Mhz Celeron systems with 32MB of RAM etc.....
>
> David Culp
>