Re: My gradebook for Linux

[Jim Wildman <jawildman@cfanet.com>]

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
>