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From: stretch@EMUNIX.EMICH.EDU (Brian Stretch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 386 problems kinda resolved
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Date: 16 Aug 90 17:12:00 GMT
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Bill Davidsen,

What you said is, I am sure, quite true.. however, I didn't get "into"
Intel-based PCs until a few months ago (last May).  For the past 7 years I
have been using/programming Motorola-based machines only.. several Tandy
Color Computers (great 8-bit machines, despite Tandy) and a Commodore Amiga. 
Since up until I got my 386 I didn't read PC mags, I had no way of knowing
about the chip upgrade.. and I got screwed. 

My main complaint with Intel is that it took me nearly TWO MONTHS to get the
right info out of them.  That is completely unacceptable.  Yes, I did get
the 386 system used.. I traded my 3 megabyte Amiga 500 system for it.  If I
could have had my questions answered quickly, I would have gotten my old
Amiga back.  (If the bad 386's are old news, why didn't Intel tell me RIGHT
AWAY?!) 

At least the 2 meg card that came with the motherboard is good.. selling that
will subsidize a new 386SX.  Once I drop the new board in, that system is
outta here.  My next machine will be non-Intel architecture, and I can
gurantee that after I get my CompSci degree (currently an Honors student at
Eastern Michigan), the company I work for, or the company I found, will
never willfully use Intel machines. 
     ---Brian Stretch (stretch@emunix.emich.edu)