[rescue] PC ShmeeCeee

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 04:10:56 (-0500), Dave McGuire wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] PC ShmeeCeee
>
>   I never suggested otherwise.  I don't have a problem with the fact
> that there are backward compatibility requirements.  I have a problem
> with the fact that so much of the world adopted such an obviously BAD
> design so readily, and now we're stuck with it, at least for a little
> while longer.

We're not stuck with it -- they are.  (And even so we can benefit from
some of the cost savings their mass purchasing power brings by carefully
selecting suitably well designed components and using them in more
appropriate ways -- why even Sun does that.)

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