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- From: Luke Jackson <luke@lodcomp.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: OS/2 for free
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 16:25:04 +0000
- Organization: LOD Computers
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- In article <4eth1o$g26@newnews.iafrica.com>, Chris Quirke
- <cquirke@iafrica.com> writes
- >SMP with cheap placeholder CPUs may be a better approach. Over here,
- >the P133 has dropped in price by R2000 in two months, i.e. 2/3 the
- >price; I don't think multi-processor boards will drop that fast, so if
- >you can go 4 x P75 to 4 x P150 next year, may be better than
- >1 x <insert top-price Intel here> to 1 x <insert top-price Intel here>
- >next year. But for most of us mortals, Win95+Am486DX4-133 is fine!
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- Intel have been dropping prices recently, but it'll probably take a
- while for the prices to follow suit in SA...
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- Luke Jackson
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