Personal Computer Decisions

58 PERSONAL COMPUTER DECISIONS by Linda Bishop* In choosing a PC system, the key question is not so much which processor platform is the "best", but rather which is the most appropriate platform for you. It is not simply a choice of speed either. Memory access and multitasking capability must also be considered in a platform decision. And then, of course, there"s software. What type of applications will you run? What operating system do you need? In software, as in the platform decision, several criteria should be explored: price, performance, applications and the future. OS / 2 addresses all these issues. OS / 2 allows multi-tasking, multi-user operation, breaks the 640 K barrier of DOS and supports the graphical user interface of presentation manager. This will make network communication easier, provide bigger databases, more complete and sim- ple applications, and allow computers to do several things at the same time. What makes OS / 2 unique is that it is the first full-fledge...