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From: scjones@thor.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Passing  GO, etc. (was Re: OEM)
Message-ID: <130@thor.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 90 23:02:35 GMT
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In article <802@beguine.UUCP>, Robert.Berry@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account) writes:
> Sorry, Walt, I stand by my definition.

Sorry, but Walt was completely correct.  The OEM is the >ORIGINAL<
equipment manufacturer -- whoever made the thing in the first place.
The guy that buys that product, adds value, and resells it is a VAR.

This does not, of course, keep people from mis-using the terms,
although OEM is abused far more often than VAR.  I suspect that
much of the confusion came about from people verb-izing the noun-al
acronym as in "We're OEMing that system," which could be interpreted
as either "We're selling that system to OEMs" or "We're buying that
system from an OEM."  When used in the second sense, someone
unfamiliar with the correct meaning of the term might well mis-
interpret it to mean that the reseller IS an OEM as opposed to
being a customer of an OEM.

Now, anyone want to discuss the correct meaning of baud?  ;-)
[ Hint to the unaware -- for most modems the "baud" rate is really
the bits per second rate, the real baud rate is quite different. ]
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