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Xref: sserve comp.os.os2.misc:90338 comp.windows.x.i386unix:8380 comp.os.linux.misc:12479 comp.os.linux.help:28185 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2243 comp.os.386bsd.questions:9659 comp.sys.next.software:10545 comp.sys.next:17045 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: PCI bus cards (graphics and SCSI) which work? Date: 5 Apr 1994 22:58:37 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2nsqet$4uc@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <michaelv.765095065@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <2nicaa$rnh@u.cc.utah.edu> <2nk5tq$4ff@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <2nk5tq$4ff@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> jaenicke@emserver.ee.TU-Berlin.DE (Lutz Jaenicke) writes: ]In article <2nicaa$rnh@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes: ]>All hardware companies in business believe their hardware is either better ] ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ]>or cheaper (or both) than anything by any of the competitors. They will ]>rationalize higher price based on better. ] ]It is absolutely not necessary to "believe" in the products you sell, the ]only important thing is to make the _customers_ believe that. ]Big :-) If you are the EE who did the design, then an aspersion on the design is an aspersion on you. Or to put it another way, there's no such thing as an ugly baby, especially *your* baby. As a matter of fact, there is no better baby than *your* baby. An EE seldom does the selling of the products he or she designs; otherwise computers assembly source would look like C and system calls would be implemented in loadable microcode. 8-). What you say is true of the salesmen, but irrelevant when discussing the engineers. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.