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- From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.214057.5756@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:40:57 GMT
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- bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
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- >In article <Bzn0EI.D2w@csulb.edu> sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
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- >If MS is capable of keeping prices down for the customer, why
- >should _they_ be penalized and not the less efficient companies ?
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- I think you should dabble a bit more in economics. MS has had ZERO to
- do with the down-pricing of computers. They have had little to
- do with OS's, also. DOS was a hack, procured from another company
- which in turn borrowed it from a third. The most major change was
- the 'UNIX-ification' of DOS, i.e., they borrowed heavily from another
- OS. NT will be the first truly MS-written OS. Even that has
- borrowed heavily from others (Mach from CMU, etc.).
-
- The downturn on pricing has to do with hardware competition, and has
- nothing to do with MS. PC prices remained artificially high for a
- long time due to the monopoly that Intel held on the CPU market.
- Once Cyrix, AMD, C&T, and others started cloning the Intel chips,
- the basic price of the chips plummeted. Prices dropped, new
- companies started selling, prices dropped further, you had more
- competition, and now we are at a point that the prices seem to have
- hit near the bottom. This is totally OS independent; the drop in
- component prices with the increased competition from PC hardware
- vendors has forced Apple and UNIX workstation vendors to drop their
- prices, also. MS has been the benficiary of this, not the
- cause. In fact, MS has long been one of the holdouts on reasonable
- pricing of software. It has taken the Phillipe Kahn's of the world
- to force them to lower their prices.
-
- >>--
- >>Jeff Sicherman
- >>up the net without a .sig
-
- >Dov
-