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The ironic part is that no matter how humorous the article is, it's accurate.

• sjs 16y ago
  It may be accurate but you still have to question whether the comparisons were useful. We all know that you don't boot the machine to type a document, power it down, and then boot it again to work on your finance spreadsheet. Including boot times in benchmarks that are otherwise only based on typing speed is just silly.
  • rbanffy 16y ago
    There is an important difference between a Kaypro II (as this one was reviewed) and a post-XT PC: all the state of the machine is in the floppies. And you can boot the PC, insert the Wordstar floppy, work on it, remove it, insert the spreadsheet floppy (or keep both programs on the same disk) and compute away.