kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu (Frank [Who me?] Kuan) (11/10/90)
The only redeeming quality of IBM clones are that they're so inexpensive. You can get a 386 (25 mhz), 40meg hd drive, super vga card and monitor for about 2400$. Compare that with the 3600$ that it costs to get an A3000 similarly equipped through the educational discount (Plus TAX because I'm in Ca.) I can't for the life of me figure out why IBM continues to do so well. In the current market, where you can get a 386 25mhz clone for so cheap, IBM astounds the world by coming out with the PS/1, which uses the 386's crippled sibling, the 16bit 386sx. Is it my imagination or are we going BACKWARDS in technology? Surprisingly, the 386sx performs quite well, since almost all IBM lameware is 8088 code. But IBM makes up for their stupidity by introducing something revolutionary in the PS/1 line. It has a volume control knob (so you can control the volume of the farting noises). I kid you not. IBM marketing: I saw a commerical the other day for the PS/1 on television. Now, the PS/1 is targeted for the home market. The commercial is dry and boring. So boring in fact, I can't remember what it was about. On the other hand, IBM licensed Hagar (the cartoon strip) on their new Risc workstations (which are priced in the 30,000$ range) for their advertisement campaign in magazines. I'm not even going to try to figure this one out. IBM and Intel: They were meant for each other. It's just too bad that they own the market. The masses are asses: It's not surprising that IBM's are more common than cockroaches. I can't even convince people in Engineering and Computer Science that the Amiga is a technically superior machine. If people who are supposed to understand computers blindly follow the evil forces of IBM, is there any hope for the common man? What can you say about a country that goes to war over oil, elects a ruthless former CIA head and a dufus into the two highest offices in the nation, cuts educational spending to maintin the military budget and subsidize the tobacco industry, award the Communist Pigs in China with "favored status" after the Tiennamen Square Massacre, a teenage population that idolizes New Kids on the Block, and as a collective country acknowledges the IBM PS/2 (Piece of ...) running OS/2 (half an operating system) as the supreme PC?
smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith) (11/10/90)
In article <9254@aggie.ucdavis.edu> kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu (Frank Kuan) writes: > [deletions] IBM astounds the world by coming out with >the PS/1, which uses the 386's crippled sibling, >the 16bit 386sx. Is it my imagination or are we going BACKWARDS >in technology? Surprisingly, the 386sx performs quite well, >since almost all IBM lameware is 8088 code. Wrong, sorry. The PS/1 has a state-of-the art 286 microprocessor flying along at a blazing speed of 10 MHz. Now don't flame IBM again until you can give them credit where credit is due. SS
lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (11/10/90)
In <9254@aggie.ucdavis.edu>, kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu (Frank [Who me?] Kuan) writes: > >It's not surprising that IBM's are more common than cockroaches. > I can't even convince people in Engineering >and Computer Science that the Amiga is a technically superior >machine. If people who are supposed to understand computers >blindly follow the evil forces of IBM, is there any hope for >the common man? Thanks Frank... I was in need af a new .signature. :-) -larry -- The only things to survive a nuclear war will be cockroaches and IBM PCs. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
v092mgp5@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott K Wood) (11/13/90)
In article <1990Nov10.050839.21865@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>, smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith) writes... >In article <9254@aggie.ucdavis.edu> kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu >(Frank Kuan) writes: >Wrong, sorry. The PS/1 has a state-of-the art 286 microprocessor >flying along at a blazing speed of 10 MHz. Now don't flame IBM >again until you can give them credit where credit is due. > I can't tell if this was meant to be sarcastic, but if not: Since when is the 286 STATE OF THE ART!! 10mHZ blazing? I think not. IBM deserves NO credit for a 286 machine... Scott >SS
rolee@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Profess'nal Agitator) (11/16/90)
In article <9254@aggie.ucdavis.edu> kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu (Frank [Who me?] Kuan) writes: >What can you say about a country that goes to war over oil, >elects a ruthless former CIA head and a dufus into the two >highest offices in the nation, cuts educational spending to Gee, I didn't know Dan Quayle was once the head of the CIA. (And I'm a staunch Republican :-) Agitator #-> -- "Caltech -- A Division of rolee@jarthur.claremont.edu // InterNet Harvey Mudd" rolee@hmcvax.bitnet // BITNET -------------- R E M E M B E R B E I J I N G -------\\-//------------- Roderick Lee "The Professional Agitator" Harvey \X/ Mudd College
orovner@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Oleg Rovner) (11/16/90)
In article <9640@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> rolee@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Profess'nal Agitator) writes: >In article <9254@aggie.ucdavis.edu> kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu (Frank [Who me?] Kuan) writes: >>What can you say about a country that goes to war over oil, >>elects a ruthless former CIA head and a dufus into the two >>highest offices in the nation, cuts educational spending to > >Gee, I didn't know Dan Quayle was once the head of the CIA. > >(And I'm a staunch Republican :-) > >Agitator > #-> > >-- > "Caltech -- A Division of rolee@jarthur.claremont.edu // InterNet > Harvey Mudd" rolee@hmcvax.bitnet // BITNET > -------------- R E M E M B E R B E I J I N G -------\\-//------------- > Roderick Lee "The Professional Agitator" Harvey \X/ Mudd College Gee, what has this got to do with games? Not to mention the fact that Mr Kuan apparently gets his CNN ahead of the rest of us. I wasn't aware we were in a war for oil. In fact I'm not even aware of there being a war for oil at the moment. As to what one can say about a countru that elects its leaders, well, look it up in the dictionary. I think the appropriate term is representative democracy. OR -- Support the "Vote for None of The Above" resolutions. -- -- ----------------------bite here----------------- "The bomb squad X-rayed the radio and determined it was only a radio" -San Diego Union. _____________________stop biting________________