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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!apl
- From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: Hardware support HORROR story!
- Message-ID: <BzGEu2.1yn@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- References: <1992Dec18.024211.26235@bilver.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:03:37 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
- : What the hell has happened to support in this country anyway?
- :
- : Has anybody else had anything like this happen to them, or we
- : just unusually lucky :-(.
- :
- Oh, how about breaking a motherboard while installing a multiport
- card? Breaking as in knocking chips right off?
-
- Or installing Equinox drivers to "upgrade" a Computone board?
-
- Or replacing a hard drive in a Unix box with a perfectly identical
- drive and then going in and changing the BIOS to something that
- was so incredibly different that I can't even imagine where they
- got it from?
-
- And following that by setting up DOS partitions, installing
- DOS, and complaining about the "unusable" D: drive with the
- Unix partition on it!
-
- Here's the problem, the reason, and the explanation: there is a
- limited supply of intelligence. The number of computers needing
- service has now exceeded the number of intelligent people
- available. So fools are sent to do service.
-
-
-
- Tony apl@world.std.com
-
- Lawrence & Clark, Inc (617) 762-0707 (206) 323-2864
- Xenix/Unix support,etc Boston Seattle
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