[rescue] Fry's

[George Adkins]

On Friday 22 February 2002 06:19 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:02:49PM -0500, George Adkins wrote:
> > They make higher quality PeeCee parts?
> > The last time I checked, even the best PeeCee parts were still crap.
>
> Did an 8088 beat you up as a child or something?  Most modern
> "workstations" (yes, even SPARC systems) use what most people would call
> "PC parts" in some way or another.  yes, you have cheapass PC cases and
> cdroms and such, but you can get quality parts too.
>

heh, no.  I actually owned a string of PeeCees over recent years, running 
windows no less.  Then something happened,  I found out  that quality comes 
from careful engineering, not 'hey, me too' mass production.

Don't get me wrong, I acknowledge that the PeeCee market has driven computing 
as a science and an industry over the last 10 years; on the other hand, that 
doesn't mean that I don't understand that it has driven it in many of the 
wrong directions.

To draw a parallel in wristwatches, the PeeCee industry has taken us from the 
average wristwatch being a Timex to where the average wristwatch is a Casio 
or a Swatch.

I would prefer a world of Valjeaux, Breguet, Movado, Omega, Piaget, Heuer and 
Vacheron Constantine.

George