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In article <GERRY.90Sep19092154@onion.frc.ri.cmu.edu> gerry@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
>
>I'm sorry folks, but this is one of the absolute stupidest threads I
>have ever seen on the net.  The IBM PC was obsolete years many years
>ago.  Anything with a 286 is obsolete now!  Why waste good money to
>purchase junk?  Spend a few bucks and at least get a 386SX, there's no
>excuse not to.  Oh, and if you say $$$, figure out how much your time
>is worth and multiple that by the time savings from a faster machine.
>(UH... I never thought of that?!)
>
>Furthermore, it is people like the original poster who are doing more
>harm to the PC market than they can ever realise.  If MicroSoft had
>balls, they would say that stating with MS DOS 5.x, they will drop
>support for anything not running a 286.  Yeah, they'll alienate some
>folks, but it will allow the rest of the planet (the intelligent half
>who have a reasonable hardware platform) to finally have a software
>capability equal to their harware perfomance.
>

Sorry, Gerry, but pull your head out.  I am of the belief that any PC
that can be used for meaningful work is not obsolete.  Why should I care
if my PC does 35.6 MIPS if all I need to do with it is word processing or
database entry?  The machine is sitting idly by most of the time waiting
for my keyboard entry anyway.  Many people are still using Commodores,
for cryin' out loud.

How would you feel if every model year, car makers quit providing parts 
for last year's model?  Oh, but you'll get better gas mileage with a new
model, so why waste money fixing up last year's junk?  If GM had balls,
they could do this.  So what if they alienate a few million drivers? 

Sure, I'd love to have a nice 386 with 4M of ram, a huge hard disk and
1024x768 VGA.  But I also have a mortgage, utility bills, car maintenance,
insurance payments, and so on that make this rather insignificant in the
grand scheme of things.  So I'll continue to bang away on my XT clone,
putting along at 4.77MHz, spinning my little 20Meg hard drive's heart
out, content in knowing that I'm getting something meaningful done with
it.  Until I have a need to build 2-megabytes worth of spreadsheet, I
should get along rather nicely.

Meanwhile, if you decide that you can't live without the latest and
greatest hardware platform, send me your address.  I'd love to go through
your trash can.

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