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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:29597 comp.sys.intel:24516 comp.os.misc:3509 comp.unix.bsd:15596 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7764 comp.unix.sys5.r4:8826 comp.unix.misc:15075 comp.os.linux.development:21249 comp.os.linux.misc:31712 comp.os.linux.misc:31713 comp.os.386bsd.development:2823 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4430 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!news.sinet.slb.com!news.San-Jose.ate.slb.com!San-Jose.ate.slb.com!banzai From: banzai@San-Jose.ate.slb.com (Jeffery Kaneko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 12:55:29 Organization: Schlumberger Technologies Lines: 26 Message-ID: <banzai.21.000CED29@San-Jose.ate.slb.com> References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <3cit0i$mjf@tut.msstate.edu> <3clp1c$q6p@news.iastate.edu> <3cphs0$l6e@ddi2.digital.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: jeff_banzai.san-jose.ate.slb.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] In article <3cphs0$l6e@ddi2.digital.net> hisself@digital.net (Jim Wallace) writes: >Monty H. Brekke (brekke@dopey.me.iastate.edu) wrote: > (much stuff deleted) >: few months, and was thinking of getting a Pentium. However, I have a >: serious problem with Intel's current attitude and would really like to >Ah ha, IBM's ploy is working. I tend to think it is more the media's >version of Intel's attitude, rather than Intel's attitude. >BTW, I have NO financial interest in Intel (damn it), I just think that >they are getting a raw deal. > Jim Wallace Raw deal!? Oh come on, give me break! You can say that after those bastards *raped* us end-users by price-gouging on '386 processors (Remember guys? Back when they had a f***ing monopoly)? That was possibly the most blatant example of sheer greed as I have ever seen in this industry. I am not so quick to forgive. As far as I am concerned, Intel deserves every black eye and broken jaw that it gets. -- Banzai