25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
10:55 a.m.
From: Christopher Smith <csmith(a)amdocs.com>
People buy peesees for one of four reasons:
They favor them -- usually because they've never seen anything else.
Their friend-who-knows-everything-about-computers likes them (yeah...)
Everybody else is doing it
They don't know that anything else exists
Reason #5: It's a large market and compatability is handy for many reasons.
You don't have to like it but if you have a PC even a slow one it can be
very
handy. It doesn't mean you must pitch over to microsoftism either as there
are enough non- M$ tools that seem to work ok on the base winders.
As to buying a PC... why? People are giving away P166s and thats enough
to do most anything if a decent disk is installed. I figure if I spend more
than
the price of a new modest sized disk I've overpaid for my PCs. Of course I
don't do the games or heavy graphics that want cpu up the wazzoo or other
resources.
Allison