🚀 go-pugleaf

Neil Brendan Clark (nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk) wrote:
: Jolyon Ralph <jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote:
: >
: >Because PC's have a crap floppy disk architecture.

: Well, I can do floppy disk activities as well as other stuff "simultaneously"
: on my work PC; of course, I'm running FreeBSD, a free UNIX clone, on it. The
: problem with the PC is *not* the architecture, which is getting quite good
: with PCI and so on, rather it is the poor OS implementations courtesy of
: Mr. Gates that are holding it back.

Ah, but then is this really a "PC" (note the quotes before you
flame!)?  I think that what most people mean by a "PC" is an Intel
machine running Windows (and not Windows NT).  However, I still tend
to look at Intel machines as having a "pieced-together" archicture
that's based on the very old, original IBM PC AT design and has had
numerous additions to try to keep it up to date.

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