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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!peer.news.xara.net!xara.net!SoNet!innotts.co.uk!usenet From: scho@innotts.co.uk (Ben Schofield) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,alt.binaries.warez.mac,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.machten,comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.user-friendly Subject: Re: FIVE GOOD REASONS WHY IBM'S ARE BETTER THAN MACS Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 19:06:46 GMT Organization: 'Monoi,' said Enif Lines: 20 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <317bd82d.4871541@news.innotts.co.uk> References: <Cyclone-0504961737500001@dial24.trip.net> <31664662.1081143@153.2.170.10> <dke-0604960729360001@adnline68.adnc.com> <31678d59.1170056@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <31685e02.5498255@news.earthlink.net> <4kabef$lfg@acmez.gatech.edu> <3169647e.2324874@news.earthlink.net> <4kc7m3$b7o@acmez.gatech.edu> <316abacb.31125569@news.earthlink.net> <avi-1104962354100001@cyber100.cyberspc.mb.ca> <316e38b1.3254237@news.earthlink.net> <Cyclone-1204961753220001@dial18.trip.net> <316f7c0f.4109582@news.earthlink.net> <ak night-1304961318100001@dial4.trip.net> <avi-1604962127440001@cyber119.cyberspc.mb.ca> <31794646.5442940@news.innotts.co.uk> <317a9ffe.9078316@news.brandeis.edu> Reply-To: scho@innotts.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: seriald1d.innotts.co.uk X-Newsreader: 1024/B4559F8D C1 C4 26 C2 6D 8A 7F 5B F2 DB EB 86 42 A8 4D 22 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc:34873 alt.binaries.warez.mac:3297 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46381 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:124461 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:22511 comp.os.msdos.misc:53721 comp.os.os2.advocacy:195094 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:8568 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:100820 comp.sys.next.advocacy:34935 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:2950 comp.unix.advocacy:19757 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17728 comp.unix.bsd.misc:782 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3189 comp.unix.machten:2289 comp.unix.pc-clo ne.16bit:696 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9255 comp.unix.shell:31839 comp.unix.solaris:66517 comp.unix.user-friendly:3630 jaliyaj@cs.brandeis.edu (Jaliya Jayawardena) wrote... > >Or are you just pulling this all out of the air with little or no personal > >experience yourself? > > The guy's right. I had a perfectly functioning computer until > I decided to add a network card to my PC. Took me sooo long to get the > drivers to load up. Of course, it WAS an Apple Localtalk > card...(darned network people at my uni! Why not ethernet!?) Yeah, which is fair enough... if you mess about with a computer, you can expect there to be a risk of it going wrong (whether it's because of IRQs on a PC, SCSI IDs on a Mac, whatever). I was just a bit peeved because he was claiming that a computer would just start going wrong for no other reason than it'd been working right for a while, which seemed a bit odd to me! -- Ben. http://www.innotts.co.uk/~scho/ This sig isn't very good.