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From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: SCO market share
References: <2em4ds$n22@vanbc.wimsey.com> <2errm1$b9l@vanbc.wimsey.com> <1993Dec17.230112.24503@kf8nh.wariat.org> <2etrnt$91@vanbc.wimsey.com>
Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 16:10:03 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Dec18.161003.29718@kf8nh.wariat.org>
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In article <2etrnt$91@vanbc.wimsey.com>, sl@vanbc.wimsey.com (Stuart Lynne) says:
+---------------
| In article <1993Dec17.230112.24503@kf8nh.wariat.org>,
| Brandon S. Allbery <bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org> wrote:
| }In article <2errm1$b9l@vanbc.wimsey.com>, sl@vanbc.wimsey.com (Stuart Lynne) says:
| }| What SCO does is to work with major board vendors to ensure that SCO drivers
| }| are available. 
| }
| }unless the vendor chooses to write SCO drivers.  That was my point:  there's a
| }lot of strange hardware out there in the PC world, and nobody can keep track
| }of *all* of it.
| 
| Was this meant to a point for or against :-)
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Neither; it was correcting a misunderstanding about what I originally said.
If it's a point *against* anything, it's against the proliferation of
incompatible hardware in the PC market.

++Brandon
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Brandon S. Allbery	   kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org		 bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
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