Subject: Re: Another: can't *not* buy Win95 on Dell or Gateway
Harry Hochheiser (harry@tigger.jvnc.net)
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 09:21:21 -0400
Message-Id: <9805051324.AA18420@a.cni.org> To: roundtable@cni.org Subject: Re: Another: can't *not* buy Win95 on Dell or Gateway In-Reply-To: <354E73E9.6B490FA7@cptech.org> Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 09:21:21 -0400 From: Harry Hochheiser <harry@tigger.jvnc.net>
Ted Kircher <kircher@realtime.com> wrote:
>
> Since an operating system (any of them) is many orders of magnitude
> more *functional* complex than all of hardware in a system, a naked
> (only hardware) system could not be guaranteed from a practical
> perspective. Even my 'hole in the wall' store would not do this.
This argument seems suspect. Having done it myself more times than I
can remember, I know that clearing an OS off of a computer is a 3-minute
job: there's no reason why vendors couldn't load Windows, run tests, and
then wipe the machine clean. If it passed the verification tests with
the OS, why would removing the OS make it harder to guarantee?
What's needed here would seem to be some investigative reporting:
Suppose someone went to a large mail-order house and tried to buy 100
Pentium II's, with some fairly powerful configuration, coming to roughly
$2K/machine. Then, they'd go back to that vendor, asking for the same
machines bare. Would the vendor be able to do this? If so,would the
quotes be on the order of $100 less for each machine? What about if the
order was for 50 machines, or 500?
-Harry
Harry Hochheiser
<harry@tigger.jvnc.net>
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