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From: AAW151%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (Andy patrizio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: competitiveness
Message-ID: <33147@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 16:41:30 GMT
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Ok, here we go again...

John Sparks (sparks@corpane.UUCP) sez...

>Gee,I guess the company I work for isn't professional then. Funny, because
I always thought we were. We have a fortune 500 parent company after all.
But I guess we are just a bunch of hacks. We buy all our PC's mail order,
in pieces and assemble them ourselves. We have mostly 386 and 486 boxes,
running Unix and tied together with ethernet. We do all the work ourselves
because it allows us to pick and choose the parts we want to use, and we
can get better prices on the different parts from different venders.

I guess we are idiots then because we generally buy our 386's and 486's with
just a case, power supply, motherboard and 2 floppies.

We buy our ethernet cards and hard drives and monitors from other vendors.
But then we are just a bunch of idiotic unprofessional hackers.

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With an attitude like that, I need little convincing. If your co-workers are as
 rude as you I'm amazed you've gotten this far.

When I said only an idiot would by a box without a hard drive, I meant a stand-
alone machine. When was the last time you saw CAD, MS WORD or PageMaker run on
a 286/386 machine, NOT ON A NETWORK, using 2 floppies? So many professional pro
grams these days use 5,6,7 or more disks that a hard drive is mandatory.

On a netword, of course, hard drives are not needed. But I wasn't refering to n
etworks, just single boxes. And DBase IV on 2 floppies (provided it would work)
 would be a nightmare.


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