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Subject: Re: [9fans] unfair?
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:07:52 -0400
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Laura Creighton <lac@cd.chalmers.se>:
>But I am having serious problems here in Sweden finding hardware to run
>a new file server on.  My hardware dealer, who loves me because I buy so
>much stuff from him to run linux on, just phoned.  I could not get him
>to believe that I wanted older hardware than the stuff he was going to
>give me FOR FREE.  Anders and I need to go to the used computer store
>to get something we can run.  Maybe hardware is just so much easier to
>come by in the USA that you didn't notice that it is not so freely
>available other places.  

I'd like some details on that. Other than the Adaptec story which we've
gone over many times, what else is a problem?