RE: Twinax Card and Win95

Hi Bob!  Over the past few years, the "bleeding edge" whiz-bang hi-
performance PC hardware has always been delivered first in PC's
directed at the home market.  Why?  Games.  And the latest, coolest
multimedia diversions.  No IRQs left over?  Most home consumers want
a complete package and generally don't add extra peripherals.

Businesses (including the SOHO market) need something a little more
substantial and proven.  And generally, businesses can manage quite
nicely using last years technology.  Unfortunately, the PC arena
seems to be governed more by the Madison Avenue rule:  "Sell the
sizzle, not the steak".  As someone who has worked on S/38 and AS/400
software development for years, I've always wondered what PC's would
be like if PC users demanded the same level of quality as do AS/400
customers!


Bob wrote:
> I guess I figured, that since it was the leading edge IBM PC, (200MHz, =
> 3.1Gb DASD, 32Mb RAM) that it didn't qualify as a home PC. I figured =
> people at home spent around $1100 to $2000 for their home systems.

> Actually, what I think really happened, is that IBM added this new Mwave =
> component to its PCs. Mwave and its related supporting components use up =
> all remaining IRQs in the PC. Hence, even though they have 5 to 7 open =
> slots in this "home" computer, you really can't add anything that might =
> use an IRQ.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG "VI" Development, IBM Toronto Lab, hboldt@vnet.ibm.com
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