Thats what I thought, I knew I was not mad
when I told my roomy that I prefer to hand
select hardware types, he kept telling me
that "parts is parts" and I said
"shyeah, and monkeys will fly out
of my butt".
By the way Charley you owe me a dollar,
I win the bet. Leave it in the candy dish
when you get back from class.
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Paul wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:
>
> >I just wondered, am I imagining it or do hand-built
> >systems tend to run better than a pre-built
> >PC bought at like either "?triangle" or
> >"?Best Buy" or something of that ilk?
> >
> >I noticed for myself that my hand-built system
> >seems to run better than my roommate's
> >pre-built system.
>
> I have 2 machines here, a PentiumII/400 handbuilt, and a P-II/350
> pre-built. Mandrake 7.1 runs fine on both of them. I think it is more a
> matter of having more or less well supported hardware than where the
> system comes from. When I stick a winmodem into the handbuilt, it won't
> run. When I hook up the old 28.8K external modem to the ttyS1 port of the
> prebuilt, it will run.
>
> Paul
>
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