Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!j.cc.purdue.edu!mit-prep!mellon From: mellon@mit-prep.ARPA (Ted Lemon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PCs Limited Message-ID: <98@mit-prep.ARPA> Date: Thu, 14-May-87 00:33:25 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-prep.98 Posted: Thu May 14 00:33:25 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 19:27:51 EDT References: Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 21 In-reply-to: jl42#@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 3 May 87 21:48:11 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.44 of Tue Apr 14 1987 on prep (berkeley-unix) I don't think it's legitimate for a company to expect you to only buy their hardware. If they can't handle the concept of alien hardware, they shouldn't claim to have an IBM compatible. Most people need things that PC's limited can't provide - graphics, large disks, et cetera. A PC's limited AT should come with a hard disk controller if it's AT compatible, and the controller should have been tested prior to shipment. I don't know how bad they really are about foreign hardware, but when I buy a computer, I don't want to feel that I can't be creative with it. Of course, this is a great argument against IBM ATs as well. Go, Compaq!!! _MelloN_ -- Ted Lemon _______________________________________________________________________________ |UUCP: {}!mit-eddie!mit-prep!mellon | New Media Graphics Corporation| |INTERNET: mellon@prep.ai.mit.edu | 279 Cambridge St. | |Project GNU, Free Software Foundation | Burlington MA 01803 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Be all you can be; work for peace.