[rescue] Windows XP to be released on the Sun Blade 100

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:40:56PM -0500, George Adkins wrote:
> > > I think I'd rather pay $500 for a used U30 with a 300Mhz Ultrasparc in
> > > it with 256M of RAM, and put a $100 9 gig SCA drive in it.  <snip>
> >
> > Those $500 U30s wont last forever.. and by the time you add more disk a=
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> > RAM, and shipping, you might as well just buy the $999 Blade 100.
> >
> Yea=08, that's like saying:
> 'By the time you rebuild the engine in that Porsche, you might as well ha=
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> bought yourself a new Dodge Neon.'

Some people need to drive to work every day...
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> Sure, you get a new system, but look at what you're getting!
> It's the same thing as the Packard Bell ^h^h^h^h^h^h ultra 5 for goodness=
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> sake.  Creepy castrated processor, cheesy disposable disks ( "Yeah, but I=
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> is virtually as good as SCSI for a Single-User Wintel - oops, I mean Unix=
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> Worksatation usage" - Yeah, right.  That is until you have to replace the=
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> disk once or twice.)

It ain't IDE that b0rked it up, it's Sun - they don't know how to
write IDE drivers.
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> Please... the reason we have to put up with this kind of crap is because =
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> idiots of the world buy into it.  And when we buy (into) it too, it's not=
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> Compromise, it's Capitulation. =20
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> If Bill Gates were going to port Windows-XP to Ultrasparc, it would be on=
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> the SunBlade 100.

You sore with Windows XP. (you have to see the TV ad)

=2E/patrick