Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!sparks
From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: competitiveness
Message-ID: <3393@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 90 16:44:01 GMT
References: <33147@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY
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AAW151%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (Andy patrizio) writes:

>Ok, here we go again...

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


>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.

>------------------------------------------------------------------------------

>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.

I wasn't trying to be rude, just sarcastic. Rude is calling people Idiots.

>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.

Mean what you say and say what you mean. You said nothing like what you said
above the first time. all you said was that only an Idiot would buy a 
PC without a hard drive so why do they sell Amiga's without them? (paraphrased).
I simply pointed out that Yes you can buy PC's without hard drives quite easily.
Then you came back and said that only hackers would do such a thing, so I 
pointed out to you that professionals do it also, in a sarcastic note. Now
you come back and are explaining what you *really* meant to say. Sorry, but
I don't read minds. <---- I still am not trying to be rude, just pointing
out my viewpoint on this. This is not some subject to get worked up about, 
let's just drop it.


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