tbray@mprvaxa.UUCP (Tim Bray) (06/27/84)
Let me get this straight. FIRST, you decided to standardize on
the IBM PC as your diskless workstation, THEN you went looking
for some system software that would work on it.
This was the kind of Big Blue myopia that I thought I had escaped
by fleeing into the UNIX(tm) world.
The IBM PC has an underpowered processor, a brain-damaged bus design,
a truly execrable keyboard, and a fabulous marketing organization
behind it.
The rest of this industry may be willing to centre their lives around
third-rate architectures and 1960's design philosophy because they have
I-B-M
tatooed across their foreheads, but I WON'T!!!!!!!
Tim Bray {decvax!microsoft!, ihnp4!alberta!} ubc-vision!mprvaxa!tbrayron@BRL-TGR.ARPA (07/02/84)
From: Ron Natalie <ron@BRL-TGR.ARPA> Actually, IBM won't either. In the three University distributed computing networks that IBM is participating in, none use IBM PC's. They either use their 68000 based lab system or they are planning to use the new 32032 system they've developed. -Ron