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From: jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Message-ID: <2930@killer.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 19:57:09 GMT
References: <9591@tekecs.TEK.COM> <328@splut.UUCP> <3144@briar.Philips.Com>
Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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Summary: I forget what I was going to say ...
	 ... I'll know in a minute.

In article <3144@briar.Philips.Com>, rob@philabs.Philips.Com (Rob Robertson) writes:
> 
> >> Minix is a very good thing.  The IBM-PC however, is worthless for anything
> >> except running "Flight-simulator".
> 
> >Smile when you say that...
> >Better yet, tell it to the literally millions of executives who are doing
> >useful work with them daily. They'll laugh you out of the office.
> 
> executives?  pc's?  useful work?
> 
> 			    paper weights
> 			  terminal emulation
> 		       secretary running lotus
> 	       impress business associates and friends
> 	      scream for more useful products like os/2
>     the hard disks are good for storing out of date software.

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> -- 
> 				william robertson

Let's not confuse the hardware with the software.  I have a '386 at home
running Xenix at this very moment.

PC's are very useful.

You can use them to port your software to and lose the rest of the hair
you haven't lost just yet.

You can run flight simulator between boots when you take the machine
down to install yet another megabyte of memory.

You can avoid buying more terminals because SCO Xenix has that multi-
window deal you can do with ALT-F1 and so on.

They really are fast.  In huge model it benchmarks the same as my 5 year
old 6MHz 68000 box.  With one wait state memory.

The best way to compile C programs is cc -M3s -O.  Anything but -M2h.

- John.
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