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- From: jregehr@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (John David Regehr)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. 386
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 17:07:45 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- In article <1992Nov9.200839.27999@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se writes:
- >Derek Schott writes:
- >>
- >>After watching the market trend, I have the funniest feeling that
- >>everything has about hit rock bottom. A lot of people keep saying
- >>that the introduction of the i586 is going to severely cut the
- >>prices of both the 386 and 486 machines. Although it might drop
- >>the prices at first, I don't see why it is going to cut them so
- >>much.
- >
- >Not to mention that very few people actually need a 586 (aka Pentium).
- >How many people--excepting ray-tracing fanatics and people who do
- >serious number crunching--have had any speed problems with a 33 MHz
- >486? For the mass-market, the Pentium is a solution waiting for
- >
- >a problem (like CD-I). I can't see people scrambling to buy them,
- >unless they are one of the rising number of buzzword addicts.
- >
-
- I think you are correct that the Pentium is a solution waiting for a problem
- that few people have yet. So was the 486, though. I heard many people
- argue that nobody would buy 486s, because "386s are powerful enough", before
- they were released. If Intel prices Pentiums low enough and there is a
- powerful, back-compatible operating system (NT most likely), the 486 will be
- dying in a couple of years.
-
- John Regehr
- jregehr@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
- Kansas State University
-
-
- >--
- >James Hague
- >exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
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