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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 10:40:43
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- mharrell%sojourn1.sojourn.com@INTERNET wrote :
-
- >
- > Neil Brendan Clark (nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk) wrote:
- > : Jolyon Ralph <jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote:
- > : >
- > : >Because PC's have a crap floppy disk architecture.
- >
- > : Well, I can do floppy disk activities as well as other stuff "simultaneously"
- > : on my work PC; of course, I'm running FreeBSD, a free UNIX clone, on it. The
- > : problem with the PC is *not* the architecture, which is getting quite good
- > : with PCI and so on, rather it is the poor OS implementations courtesy of
- > : Mr. Gates that are holding it back.
- >
- > Ah, but then is this really a "PC" (note the quotes before you
- > flame!)? I think that what most people mean by a "PC" is an Intel
- > machine running Windows (and not Windows NT). However, I still tend
- > to look at Intel machines as having a "pieced-together" archicture
- > that's based on the very old, original IBM PC AT design and has had
- > numerous additions to try to keep it up to date.
-
- And they still HAVE IT... all that crappy IRQ-Stuff... mainboards that won't
- get along with certain hardware expansions (stuff like "better do not buy a PC
- with CPU clock divisible by 25... you will only get problems" is usual...)
-
- The PC architecture is NOT good. Nowerdays it is fast, OK, but it simply is
- FAST CRAP.
-
- Steffen Haeuser
-