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- From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (JohnC)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: new inside Macintosh?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.205932.16873@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 20:59:32 GMT
- References: <zkessin.711384199@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <70207@apple.Apple.COM> <6798@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com>
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- In article <6798@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> wilde@hri.com (Scott Wilde) writes:
- >In article <70207@apple.Apple.COM>, bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
- >>
- >> COST PER POUND
- >> K&R "C" manual $60 (1/2 lb @ $30)
- >> Inside Mac "dictionary" $9.38 (8 lbs @ $75)
- >>
- >> COST PER PAGE
- >> K&R $.15 (200 pages @ $30)
- >> Inside Mac $.0625 (1200 pages @ $75)
- >>
- >
- >On the other hand, by that sort of reasoning:
- >
- > COST PER MEG
- >Quantum 105 $4.09
- >Wren 1.2G $1.75
- >
- >So why doesn't everyone own a 1.2 Gig drive?
-
- Because not everyone needs 1.2G of storage. Just as not everyone needs
- _Inside Macintosh_. However, those who do find the resulting increase in
- storage capacity/information availability to be much larger, proportionally,
- than the increase in cost.
-
- I think this thread is entering the terminal stage. :-)
-
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