From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 8 12:34:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21384 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 12:34:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21212 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 12:34:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from EXIT10 (i485-gw.cetlink.net [209.198.15.97]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA22692; Fri, 8 May 1998 15:33:28 -0400 (EDT) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Tony Overfield Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 19:35:54 GMT Message-ID: <3553584e.285022381@mail.cetlink.net> References: <3.0.3.32.19980508005947.006ba3b4@bugs.us.dell.com> <3.0.3.32.19980507095816.00689420@bugs.us.dell.com> <199805070251.TAA00511@antipodes.cdrom.com> <3.0.3.32.19980508005947.006ba3b4@bugs.us.dell.com> <3.0.3.32.19980508112936.0397d2e0@bugs.us.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980508112936.0397d2e0@bugs.us.dell.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA21272 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 08 May 1998 11:29:36 -0500, Tony Overfield wrote: >No, I'm not brainwashed. The newer systems "really are" faster and >better. This seems to matter for most people. "Better" is subjective. Many people throw money away needlessly. Otherwise Bill Gates would never have succeeded. >I think it's hard to buy a new system that isn't at least twice as >fast as your DX4-100/50 systems. True, but it costs more than twice as much. I can build a 486 so cheap that my price/performance ratio is better. >Nobody wants to turn away 486 and Pentium customers, but you can't >sell those things if nobody wants to buy them. That's because Dell is selling to a market where nobody wants to slog thru Microsoft bloatware on a 486. But FreeBSD runs just fine on the same 486. The unspoken conspiracy between Microsoft, Intel, and the manufacturers like Dell has cost consumers and corporations billions of dollars while adding very little, if any, productivity gain to the economy. I purchased Quicken 98 Home and Business because they claimed it will let you can manage personal and business finances all from the same checkbook. What a sorry joke that was! I returned it for a refund, replacing it with a $60 adding machine and a green ledger pad. And now I've done my bookkeeping in less time than I spent fooling around with Quicken trying to make it fit my needs. New computers and software are not, by consequence of their existence, "better." In fact, there's so much hardware and software garbage on the market it's a wonder the world economy hasn't collapsed entirely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message