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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
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- Date: 12 Mar 1996 01:59:44 GMT
- Organization: The Melbourne Gaol
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- Erik Johnson (erik@phidias.colorado.edu) wrote:
- : > A nice philosophy to have, if you can afford it. In terms of the programs
- : > basic to business needs, such as word processors, spread-sheets, and email,
- : > the bells, whistles, and obscure features of today's versions hardly make
- : > up for the increased hardware costs involved in running them.
-
- : 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.
-
- Don't confuse computing-power/dollar with lower prices. While the price
- per meg RAM or HD space may drop, it seems the hardware requirements are
- rising faster than the power/dollar ratio! The computer prices are
- getting like the cars. Instead of dropping prices, they add enough
- features to <italics>increase</italics> the price instead! Why does
- labour on the planet gets cheaper, along with materials, yet cars are
- getting increasingly unaffordable?
-
- Soon enough, there will end up being a chip like the DEC Alpha made by
- Intel. The DEC Alpha is roughly equal to the first Cray. (according to
- the Guinness Book of World Records) Will Winblows 9x slow it down to the
- pace of a 386SX16 running Winblows 3.1? I bet it will, and Linux will
- blow you out of your seat and into orbit. :)
-
- Tell me this: Do you need a Cray to edit some text?
-
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- Ned Kelly Lives!!!!!!
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- PGP Public Key coming to a keyserver near you. Now beta testing Strine
- for Yanks, version 2.0 (with bug fixes for ver. 1.2).
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- I support Patrick Buchanan - becuse of the Vladamir Zirinowski Endorsement!
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