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 mharrell%sojourn1.sojourn.com@INTERNET wrote : 

>
> 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.

And they still HAVE IT... all that crappy IRQ-Stuff... mainboards that won't 
get along with certain hardware expansions (stuff like "better do not buy a PC 
with CPU clock divisible by 25... you will only get problems" is usual...)

The PC architecture is NOT good. Nowerdays it is fast, OK, but it simply is 
FAST CRAP.

Steffen Haeuser