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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Crystal Upgrades
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.230140.26872@netcom.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 23:01:40 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.145418.21270@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1993Jan1.040446.3999@netcom.com> <1i0rqhINN62k@crcnis1.unl.edu>
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- vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen) writes ...
- >ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >
- >>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.
-
- Computers that cost more to make than they can be sold for don't last
- on the market for very long. Apple needed a cheap, entry-level
- Macintosh for some parts of the market. The Classic II is it.
-
- >>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.
-
- "Chips" are not "computers". And I very much doubt your scenario.
- Do you work for Intel?
-
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- Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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