Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 12:32:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: chat Subject: Re: SMP, Intel PR440FX, cpu monitoring, etc Message-ID: <199805221932.MAA28127@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199805221158.EAA08924@antipodes.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "May 22, 98 04:58:19 am"
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Mike Smith wrote: > > Peter Dufault once stated: > > > > =I'm planning on getting one also. I'm looking forward to my first > > =chance to wipe out NT instead of W95. > > > > Wiped out or not, it will still count as yet another NT computer in > > the world. Try to make sure they do NOT give you NT license. They'll > > probably refuse to give you a discount for that, though... > > The licence was allocated when the machine was manufactured. Trying to > do this is stupid, and will just irritate the vendor. someone try to deny MS has monopoly power? someone try to claim that you can buy a PC from a major manufacturer without paying a "tax" to MS? jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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