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In article <1990Sep26.151253.16992@Solbourne.COM> polo@hagar.Solbourne.COM (Dave Polakowski) writes:
>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  Anything with a 286 is obsolete now!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? 
>

There does get to be a point when old equipment is not worth supporting. One of
the reasons why (if I remember right) automakers carry spare parts for old
models is because they are required to by law. I think this is for 20 years.

Considering how computers become obsolete faster than cars, dropping support
for products that are say 8 to 10 years old is not unreasonable.

Besides, most likely DOS 5.0 will be such a memory and performance hog, who
would REALLY want to run them on their PC/XT compatibles anyway?


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