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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Win3.1 support *better* than MS!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.055836.14294@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University, New York
- References: <1992Aug28.044505.2361@news.Hawaii.Edu> <pathak-280892123631@virtual.mitre.org>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 05:58:36 GMT
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- In article <pathak-280892123631@virtual.mitre.org> pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug28.044505.2361@news.Hawaii.Edu>,
- >tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen) wrote:
- >
- >> Another case in point is memory boards for PS/2s. IBM says that the system
- >> maximum memory for a Model 70-A21 is 16 Mbytes, yet there is a large number
- >> of third party vendors who will sell Microchannel memory boards that support
- >> more than 16 Mbytes on this model. How do they do it? Do they know something
- >> IBM doesn't know? Or does IBM know something that the third party vendors
- >> don't know, like some sort of hidden gotcha when dealing with more than
- >> 16 Mbytes on such a machine? I've asked a local IBMer why these third party
- >> folks are able to provide more than 16 Mbytes, whereas IBM says 16 Mbytes is
- >> the maximum, but I didn't get an answer. Why is it so hard to get a straight
- >> answer to a simple question?
- >
- >This is probably more a marketing thing. A vendors product line is
- >generally designed so a certain class of users buy a certain type of
- >machine. By limiting the Model 70 to 16M, IBM is trying to encourage
- >people who need more than 16M to buy a different machine.
-
- I wonder if they will wise up when they see that everyone went out and bought
- cheaper clones so they wouldn't have to limit themselves to 16 MB. IBMs,
- better? Sheesh!
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