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"Wow"? Is it really necessary to give this guy a hard time for being unable to afford the kind of computers you had in 1992?

Anyway, there's no such thing as a "DX3". And the first 100MHz 486 (the DX4) came out in March of 1994, so I don't see how you were running one at the end of 1992.

My family's first computer - not counting a hand-me-down XT that was impossibly out-of-date when we got it in 1992 or so - was a 66MHz 486-DX2, purchased in early 1995.

I can't quite explain why, but as a matter of pride it's still upsetting - decades later - to see someone weirdly bragging about an impossible computer that supposedly outran mine despite a three year handicap.



Is that really what "wow" means here? I took it more as "wow, I've been around forever / I must be old now" or something similarly tame.




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