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- From: vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Productivity != SPECmarks, crap-compatibility - what for? (Was: Re: What's in a name?)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.163506.306@darkcube.radig.de>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:35:06 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.050025.13456@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Sender: vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@darkcube.radig.de
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1992Jul20.050025.13456@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
- (Othman Ahmad) writes:
- > In article <1325@pacsoft.com> mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik) writes:
- >
- > Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet
- > : : I think that quite obviously, the first form of compatibility is
- ridiculous
- > : : (and somehow reminds me of the ridiculous algorithms often used on DOS
- boxes),
- > : : compared to the latter.
- > :
- > : UNIX boxes are "software compatable"? I think not.
- > :
- > : : If I had intel inside(tm), I'd throw up...
- > :
- > : I guess that your signature pretty much sums up your bias. Don't get me
- > : wrong: I am a die-hard UNIX fan, but I don't live with my head in the sand.
- > : There are things to be learned on both sides of the fence.
- >
- > Bravo! I support you!
- > Customers are always right! Sometimes I just shake my heads! I am the
- minority
- > after all.
-
- Think again, please. Think about wars. Are wars good or bad? Of course
- they're *good*, otherwise millions of people wouldn't lead them, right?
- Wrong! People lead wars because other people, people whom they trust, or
- whom they fear, tell them to.
- People also trust (or fear) big vendors. Big vendors tell people to buy
- compatible hard/software so these vondors can keep their market share.
- Because people are too lazy to think for themselves, they believe and buy.
- That's what I said. That's what I meant.
-
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@darkcube.radig.de)
-
- If I had intel inside(tm), I'd throw up...
-