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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Buying UNIX for a clone
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.232120.9145@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <1991Apr28.235013.8239@virtech.uucp> <1991Apr29.213650.17656@unixland.uucp> <1991Apr30.173134.11376@nstar.rn.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 23:21:20 GMT

In article <1991Apr30.173134.11376@nstar.rn.com> larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>yes - but if Dell's base machine is a 386/33 with AMI bios and Adaptec 1542B
>- which is standard hardware in my book - who cares?
>

Every motherboard is different.

Every combination of disk drives is different.  Just for example, I am
using SCSI because I thought I could just plunk any ole scsi drive on
the bus and build up a daisy chain of drives.  As it turns out, with 
one combination of drives I just happen to have, I can't run SCSICNTL
or debug on one of the drives!  To do so, I need to disconnect one of
the drives.  This is just one example of subtle little incompatibilities.



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