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- Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
- Date: Wednesday, 16 Sep 1992 01:20:09 CET
- From: <KCHAN@ESOC.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92260.012009KCHAN@ESOC.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Rumor- 486/50mhz less than $1000
- References: <1992Sep11.084355.99@gems.vcu.edu>
- Lines: 15
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- In article <1992Sep11.084355.99@gems.vcu.edu>, agnew@gems.vcu.edu says:
- >
- >Dear Netters, I heard a rumos that ibm, dec, and major ps makers are
- >going to make a 50mhz 486 for under $1000 to try and nuke the clone
- !!!!!
- I wonder how the major "ps" makers are going to nuke the clone
- market with a machine whose clock speed is almost 10**9 times slower
- than the original IBM PC at 4.77MHz, even it they pay people to use
- it let alone charging $1000 for it!!! :-))
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