Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!perelgut From: perelgut@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc,net.wanted,net.flame Subject: Re: Need Advice -vs- 8088 is wonderful Message-ID: <3585@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 07:58:34 EST Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.3585 Posted: Thu Mar 22 07:58:34 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 09:06:33 EST References: <658@sun.uucp> Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 28 Response to drivel from: John Gilmore, Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca > I think it's really funny how the folks at U of T are loudly > shouting out of one side of their mouths about how great the IBM > PC is, ... Absolutely nobody from the U of T has muttered anything about how great the IBM PC is. I know because I have been the one taking the side of the PC and my argument has been simply that PC's are: - popular with the public - broken in, understood, and supported by more than one vendor - available in quantity NOW, in Canada. If John wishes to misinterpret that to mean great, I wonder how he handles praise. I read that as "only valid alternative". > Out of the other side of their mouths comes sneaking messages > desparately requesting a C compiler that can compile a program bigger > than 64K without generating seriously broken code. If you had to work with an 8088, wouldn't you want to at least have working tools. I know WE would produce working software and we expect the same. Sorry that this somehow offends you John. -- Stephen Perelgut Computer Systems Research Group University of Toronto Usenet: {linus, ihnp4, allegra, decvax, floyd}!utcsrgv!perelgut CSNET: perelgut@Toronto