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From: komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Mark Komarinski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Date: 3 Jan 1996 21:53:39 GMT
Organization: Clarkson University
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Curt Sampson (curt@portal.ca) wrote:
: In article <BTHANIS.96Jan3085314@hawk.torolab.ibm.com>,
: Bill Thanis <bthanis@torolab.ibm.com> wrote:
: :
: :>I think a very large portion of the FreeBSD and NetBSD user community would
: :>considre an IDE CDROM (and also other ide devices) a "wierd device" they would 
: :>not touch with 5 foot isolated pole ;->
: :
: :If its dropped into your lap, you use it. IBM has tonnes of old
: :MICROCHANNEL 386's on peoples desk because they run OS/2 and a
: :word-processor. Most Professional environments whose sole job is not
: :development use old machines, because they do what is needed.

: Yeah, so how many `professional envrionments' use those old
: Microchannel 386s for their NetWare servers?

I was working for IBM the summer of '91 doing PC upgrades for their
financial people.  I was (literally) replacing IBM-PC (not XT..the original)
with 386-based PS/2s.  The users didn't mind all that much, except that now
they had color in their Lotus 123 graphs.

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- Mark Komarinski - komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu

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