Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Wed Apr 24 13:41:55 2002

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Doc wrote:

> > An easy way to spot a product intended for the toy market as opposed to one
> > intended to be seen as a computer, is that the disk drive interface is
> > external.
>
> Jeez, Dick. I can't believe you dragged me back into this. Where
> did you find that little tidbit of inductive logic?
>
> You're calling the entire DECstation 5000/2xx line "products
> intended for the toy market as opposed to one intended to be seen as a
> computer", since they have no internal mass storage. Do I think that
> was a great design? No. Did _anyone_ _ever_ mistake them for a toy?
> Get a grip. No matter whether or not you _like_ those DECstations, or
> a score of other application-oriented computers that had
> external-storage-only designs, that statement is just ludicrous.

The VAST majority of mainframes have only external disk storage. I don't
think *anyone* would confuse an ES/9000 9221 with a toy.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Wed Apr 24 2002 - 13:41:55 BST

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