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  2. From: Erik Johnson <erik@phidias.colorado.edu>
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  4. Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
  5. Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 13:14:38 -0700
  6. Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
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  15. > A nice philosophy to have, if you can afford it.  In terms of the programs
  16. > basic to business needs, such as word processors, spread-sheets, and email,
  17. > the bells, whistles, and obscure features of today's versions hardly make
  18. > up for the increased hardware costs involved in running them.  
  19.  
  20. Hmm, what increased cost are you referring to?  Original XT's cost more than
  21. $5000.  Don't mistake increased hardware requirements with increased cost.
  22. The first 486 I bought cost $3200 with a 250meg hd, 1meg video, 8meg of ram,
  23. 14" monitor.  The same money will today buy a pentium with gig+ hd, 16+ meg
  24. of ram, 2+ meg 32 bit video card.  Quite a bargain in my book.
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