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From: tbray@mprvaxa.UUCP (Tim Bray)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.unix,net.micro,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: IBM-PC's running unix...(torrid flame)
Message-ID: <570@mprvaxa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Jun-84 11:16:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 27 11:16:15 1984
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Let me get this straight.  FIRST, you decided to standardize on
the IBM PC as your diskless workstation, THEN you went looking
for some system software that would work on it.

This was the kind of Big Blue myopia that I thought I had escaped
by fleeing into the UNIX(tm) world.

The IBM PC has an underpowered processor, a brain-damaged bus design,
a truly execrable keyboard, and a fabulous marketing organization
behind it.

The rest of this industry may be willing to centre their lives around
third-rate architectures and 1960's design philosophy because they have

			I-B-M

tatooed across their foreheads, but I WON'T!!!!!!!
Tim Bray  {decvax!microsoft!, ihnp4!alberta!} ubc-vision!mprvaxa!tbray