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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: "DOS machines" (Was: TT (Who has one?))
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Jerry Shekhel asks:
>hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:

>>The IBM PC wasn't even personable, let alone personal, at its introduction,
>>and has only slightly improved since.
 
>>I personally loathe current Intel chips. I don't care what you
>>can do with one, a different architecture can do it better. 

>Hmmm.  This is exactly what I'm trying to figure out -- what makes
>you hate the Intel processor so much?
 
This is something that in other circles would be politely called "chauvinism"
or more impolitely, "bigotry"..
 
It doesn't really matter in the bigger sense of the world, since the company
which uses Intel chips to make computers (IBM) seems to have a good idea of
where they're going, and how to get there, while the company which uses
Motorola chips (Atari,Corp) is run by amateurs, interested only in the 
shortest term profit possible.
 
In the long run, it's not going to matter which CPU chip is more capable,
as it is which company knows what it's doing...
 
BobR