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- From: lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison)
- Subject: Re: Rude behavior on this group.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.191916.0201892@locus.com>
- Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
- References: <1992Dec17.224536.13196@microsoft.com> <1992Dec19.011644.5178@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Dec22.155127.29104@apgea.army.mil>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:19:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.155127.29104@apgea.army.mil> rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>) writes:
- >
- >
- >Question: For all of you who don't want to buy windows, dos..etc.. with
- >your system. Why don't you just buy a system piece by piece and put it
- >together yourselves? If you don't need any type of os installed, you
- >probably know enough about IBM clone anatomy (or atlest you should) to
- >build it yourself. That way, you get exactly what you wanted.
- >I did, I love windows, but it just wasn't making the grade on a 386-sx 16
- >with 4 megs of ram. But I only had 1700 dollars to build one... so
- >I got a 486 dx-33 with 16 megs. A complete system, minus cd-rom drive
- >cost me about $1800. ok, it was 100 more but that wasn't too bad.
- >
- >Rob Merritt
- >
- >My opinions are my own.
-
- In my case that is exactially what I did for home. However, when you
- work for a company, building boxes is generally considered a No-No.
- As a software developer, we need to know that our software is going
- to work on a Box built by "X" manufacturer, so we have to buy then.
- Then the supplier loads all sorts of software that we neither want or
- need, and because of his contract with m$ refuses to NOT load the
- software. That is my gripe. The other Gripe is that when we want
- to buy Windows, it costs us $100 a throw, the hardware supplier
- gets it for $15. Of course, we could get a mis-installed windows
- with the machine, but support costs add up to much more than we
- might save.
-
- --Lowell Morrison
- --Uncle Wolf
-
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