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From: balson@3d.enet.dec.com (My name is...)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Performance of 80486 based machines running Unix
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.214207.21425@engage.pko.dec.com>
Date: 24 Jun 91 22:31:03 GMT
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In article <1991Jun22.064103.15333@leland.Stanford.EDU>, fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes...
>In article <1991Jun22.015603.14718@virtech.uucp>, cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>|> fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes:
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> 
>The drives are OEMed from Maxtor, I don't understand why BIG BLUE like to rip
>off people like this, shame on it.  These drives are no different from Maxtors
>used in say, your favorite 3/486 boxes.


	Hmmm, yea, DEC does the same thing. I'm not sure what the exact price 
of a disk is for a DEC workstation. But the disks are the same that can be had
on the open market/mail order for PC's. the only difference being that
micro code was added to prevent them from being used in any machine other than
a DEC workstation. This in my opinion, is *NOT* what open systems is all about.
I should be able to install any SCSI disk that I have for my PC into any 
workstation anad visa versa. But I cant. Because I cannot do this makes those
machines proprietary not matter how *OPEN* those manafactures say they are. I 
could go on about this for but . . .


	Jim Balson
	Consultant