24 Apr
2002
24 Apr
'02
4:55 a.m.
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
An easy
way to spot a product intended for the toy market as opposed to one
intended to be seen as a computer, is that the disk drive interface is
external.
Jeez, Dick. I can't believe you dragged me back into this. Where did
you find that little tidbit of inductive logic?
You're calling the entire DECstation 5000/2xx line "products intended
for the toy market as opposed to one intended to be seen as a computer",
since they have no internal mass storage. Do I think that was a great
design? No. Did _anyone_ _ever_ mistake them for a toy? Get a grip.
No matter whether or not you _like_ those DECstations, or a score of
other application-oriented computers that had external-storage-only
designs, that statement is just ludicrous.
Given the price of storage in the timeframe you're discussing, the
capacity to share disks and drives between computers without dismantling
the machine was a very good idea.
An easy way to spot a Microsoft/Intel patsy is his tendency to present
his own [generally incredibly narrow] viewpoint as immutable fact.
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