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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: 4 Jan 1993 17:07:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.162944.29921@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >>The problem is that clone makers' discounts for paying a royalty for MS-DOS
- >>and Windows for every machine they ship are in no way connected with the
- >>volume.
- > And that contract is only one of many, and it's in the minority.
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- Tried to buy a new name-brand clone lately?
-
- > Want to check that again? Cyrix and AMD chips aren't selling
- > all that wonderfully--they'd sure be doing better if it weren't for
- > Intel's behavior.
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- Tell that to the AMD 386/40 in my home machine.
-
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- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
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- -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of all Fears_
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