Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:20:11 -0700 From: "M.R.Murphy" <mrm@Mole.ORG> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.org, se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE Cc: conta@alpo.casc.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 PCI-SCSI on Compaq ProLinea 5100 Message-ID: <199607162320.QAA21999@meerkat.mole.org>
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> Which is (IMNSHO) is *EXTREMELY* shortshighted of ANY company ... how
> many ``high end'' OS's rely on the crappy PC bios for I/O? I'm not
> meaning the M$ stuff, I'm meaning the true UN*X stuff (e.g. Solaris,
> SCO, FreeBSD. Sorry, maybe I shouldn't have said UN*X :-) ). It
> basically means that Compaq hardware is limited to running M$ stuff,
> which is cutting out other people from the game ... has Compaq been
> bought out by M$, perhaps? :)
>
(money spent on non-M$ stuff) + (money spent on M$ stuff)
--------------------------------------------------------- = 1
(money spent on M$ stuff)
More's the pity, but the money talks. That makes it not necessarily
shortsighted from a business standpoint :-(
The good of it is that there's a driving force for less expensive, more
powerful hardware to run M$ (and it's required), and other OS's get to
ride the coattails.
--
Mike Murphy mrm@Mole.ORG +1 619 598 5874
Better is the enemy of Good
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