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

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Wed Apr 24 22:16:25 2002

Where a mainframe's concerned, the building's the enclosure. Nobody would
confuse a mainframe costing billions to purchase and maintain over years, a
toy. Not even I would go that far.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sridhar the POWERful" <vance_at_ikickass.org>
To: "Doc" <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Cc: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)


> 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 - 22:16:25 BST