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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 02:24:30 GMT
- Organization: None -- just look at my desk!
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- LCADAMZ1@ulkyvm.louisville.edu (Lamont Adams) wrote:
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- >In article <312F71AE.12C9@phidias.colorado.edu>
- >Erik Johnson <erik@phidias.colorado.edu> writes:
- >
- >>Hmm, what increased cost are you referring to? Original XT's cost more than
- >>$5000. Don't mistake increased hardware requirements with increased cost.
- >>The first 486 I bought cost $3200 with a 250meg hd, 1meg video, 8meg of ram,
- >>14" monitor. The same money will today buy a pentium with gig+ hd, 16+ meg
- >>of ram, 2+ meg 32 bit video card. Quite a bargain in my book.
- >
- >Yes, but you have already blown that $3200 on the 486. Probably invested
- >some more cash in upgrades for it (.. It's ONLY 4 years old!! it CAN'T be
- >outdated yet! :) ) And now you are going to put another $3200 into a machine
- >that runs the "software of today" worse, comparatively, than the "Hardware of
- >Yesterday" ran the "software of yesterday"? And what are you going to hock
- >to be able to afford todo this, anyway?? :-)
-
- And don't forget, tomorrow is just a few hours away...
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