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The sentiment of the post really reminded me of this Bukowski poem:

  with an Apple Macintosh
  you can't run Radio Shack programs
  in its disc drive.
  nor can a Commodore 64
  drive read a file
  you have created on an
  IBM Personal Computer.
  both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
  the CP/M operating system
  but can't read each other's
  handwriting
  for they format (write
  on) discs in different
  ways.
  the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
  can't use most programs produced for
  the IBM Personal Computer
  unless certain
  bits and bytes are
  altered
  but the wind still blows over
  Savannah
  and in the Spring
  the turkey buzzard struts and
  flounces before his
  hens. 
(http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/16-bit-intel-8088-chip/)



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