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- From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Crystal Upgrades
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 07:28:17 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
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- >jek5036@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.E. King) writes ...
- >>Lastly: Can someone with a good working knowledge of the Classic II logic
- >>board explain why it has a 16-bit RAM bus path (effectively making it an SX)?
-
- >Simple. Price. The Classic II is a cheap computer for a reason.
- >Computer manufacturers don't just charge arbitrary amounts of money
- >for computers. Generally, the faster a computer is, the more
- >expensive it is to design and manufacture.
-
- Computer manufacturers, like all vendors, generally try to charge
- whatever the market will bear. THAT is the deciding factor.
-
-
- >2) No. Going from a 16 bit bus to a 32 bit bus means adding
- > components, traces, SIMM sockets, and other such hardware which
- > means a) redesigning the computer, and b) rebuilding the computer.
-
-
- You might try explaining this philosophy to Intel, who makes a
- CPU called the 80386 (32-bit) and sells it for a (high) price.
- They then take this chip, subject it to an additional operation
- to burn out or disable half of its bus, convert it into what they
- call the "80386SX" and then sell this costlier-to-produce chip
- for a much lower price.
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