[rescue] PC ShmeeCeee

[Dave McGuire]

On February 26, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> >   The processor is only half of the problem.  The other half is the
> > crap system architecture designed around it, that the world can't get
> > away from due to backward compatibility requirements.
> 
> Yeah, backward compatibility requirements that are not even remotely
> related to the real-world requirements that people use computers for....

  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.

   -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf