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From: goer@sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Gateway
Message-ID: <4489@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 89 17:33:40 GMT
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In article <500@darth.PGH.PA.US> liber@darth.PGH.PA.US (Eric Liber) writes,
re Gatewar 2000 (a clone company) -
>> their 386 machine is INCAPABLE of running Windows/386.
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>NOT TRUE .. I have posted this before but it seems no one listens..
>I have a GATEWAY 20mhz 386 machine purchased last October.  I RUN WINDOWS
>386 EVERY DAY.  The only problem I had was with the AWARD BIOS.

Congratulations.  Someone finally writes with specific and valid infor-
mation.  The fact is that Gateway machines used to balk at Windows/386
and OS/2.  That was the old motherboard.  Now they use AMI boards, and
they also have some machines with Micronics and Mylex boards.  They run
the above-mentioned software.

Lesson:  Be careful when you flame a company.  Be specific about the time
and circumstances.  List the hardware.  So far the Gateway flames have
been extremely naive and misleading.  Just because a company sold ma-
chines they themselves acknowledged to be incompatible with certain
software does not mean that they should receive blanket flames, or
should be held hostage to this one-time fault for ever more!

                                       -Richard L. Goerwitz
                                       goer@sophist.uchicago.edu
                                       rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer