On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 02:38 PM, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> The issue is *NOT* hardware. Take a look at www.dell.com. The > very, very, bottom-end system, a "Dimension 2200" desktop, comes these > days with a 1.3GHz Intel Celeron chip, oodles of multimegabytes of SDRAM, > a 20- to 40GB hard drive, a 4MB of video memory. That machine, which can > jump circles around even a top-of-the-line PC of just a few years ago, > is listed at a base price of $669. These machines are now approaching > supercomputer capabilities, at Radio Shack everyday consumer electronics > prices. And if you can't afford one yourself, you can rent access to > one. > > The issue is *NOT* the OS. All Dell PC's come pre-loaded with MS Windows > XP right now. And guess what -- all that Unicode functionality is packed > right under the hood in XP, waiting to go. > And for the record, for slightly more you can get a low-end iMac with Mac OS X�again, a Unicode-capable OS. ========== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
