Re: MS Bloatware (was Re: Let's do something about Microsoft)

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From: Tim Smith
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 09:27

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Jeff Medcalf (214) 280-5970 IBM SDO <medcalf@ppc5.svo.dfw.ibm.com> wrote:
>This is in fact the point that Mac users have tried to make for a decade.
>Quality built-in on the motherboard SCSI has been standard on the Mac
>since, what?, 1985?  The Mac Plus I think was the first Mac with SCSI built
>in to the machine.  It is cheaper in the short run to have the $50 SCSI
>card in the PC.  The moment you exceed the $50 SCSI card, it becomes
>*more* expensive, because typically you cannot put two $50 pseudo-SCSI
>cards in the same machine.  So now you have to buy the good one on top

If that $50 SCSI card is one that uses an NCR 8xx chip and the motherboard
contains the SDMS BIOS, that $50 card will outperform any Apple SCSI
implementation in every measurable way.  The only way to approach it will
be to buy an expensive SCSI card for the Mac.

--Tim Smith

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Subject: Re: MS Bloatware (was Re: Let's do something about Microsoft)
Date: 1 Aug 1995 09:27:16 GMT
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