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In article <GERRY.90Sep19092154@onion.frc.ri.cmu.edu> gerry@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
>In article <1990Sep18.232351.24184@uncecs.edu> mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) writes:
>
>   Another no-fault upgrade for original 5- or 8- slot PCs, is the hybrid
>   Bullet motherboard, 8,10,12, or 16 Hz 80286 processor, 8-bit bus run
>
>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  Anything with a 286 is obsolete now!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?  

Some people buy their own machines with their own money and are on a
severely limited budget.  Not everyone has corporate or university
employers who can afford to spend thousands on a machine without
worrying about it.
>Spend a few bucks and at least get a 386SX, there's no
>excuse not to.  Oh, and if you say $$$, figure out how much your time
>is worth and multiple that by the time savings from a faster machine.
>(UH... I never thought of that?!)
>
What about those who don't have that extra $$$?

>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, 

Yeah, like all the corporations who spent millions setting up 286's.
Believe it or not, when you can afford to buy that many machines,
you have the purchasing power to get almost anything.  Remember
copy protection?  It was not eliminated because software vendors finally
saw the injustice of it all.  Large corporations with lots of buying
power didn't like it.

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.

Exactly what percentage of the PC's out there are 386's?  Buy splitting the
market, much of the economies of scale is lost.  Everyone will end up
paying more for software.

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