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Subject: Re: home pc use
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:25:16 +0100
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Ted writes:

> Absolute rubbish.  There's still plenty of
> incompatible and conflicting hardware.

Incompatible | conflicting != broken

> The problem is that the people that suspect
> hardware and aren't willing to swap it out
> are protecting their feelings of affection
> for some piece of hardware, somewhere.

Or they just don't want to spend large amounts of money buying hardware they'll
never again use just to disprove something that is already extremely improbable.
If hardware were free and didn't require taking PCs apart to replace, the
situation might be different.


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