From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

In terms of real life bankable productivity gains, I'm not convinced
anything since about the 486 and Win31 or OS/2 has actually made ordinary
users more productive in meaningful ways.

The software has gotten slower about as fast as the hardware has gotten faster ;->

"Richard B."  wrote in message
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> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:44:00 -0400, "Gary Wiltshire"

> wrote:
>
> >My
> >latest Pentium pc takes longer to get to Windows than my first 8088 took
> >to get to DOS.
>
> Our new Dells with XP fire up pretty quickly.  Off course they are
> only marginally faster than an 8088 with DOS. 
>
> - Richard

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