[rescue] PC ShmeeCeee

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, February 25, 2002 at 21:35:34 (-0500), Dave McGuire wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] FDDI card
>
> On February 25, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> > <smartass>
> > 
> > PC... PERSONAL computer.  Though I'm of course sure Dave is referring to 
> > it's x86'ed nature.
> > 
> > </smartass>
> 
>   The processor is only half of the problem.  The other half is the
> crap system architecture designed around it, that the world can't get
> away from due to backward compatibility requirements.

Yeah, backward compatibility requirements that are not even remotely
related to the real-world requirements that people use computers for....

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