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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. 386
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.213327.9439@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 21:33:27 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mksol.1992Nov10.213327.9439
- References: <BxFpHv.8zB@news.orst.edu> <1992Nov9.200839.27999@exu.ericsson.se>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
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- In <1992Nov9.200839.27999@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague) 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.
-
- Unless, of course, it's the only way to get decent performance out of
- Windows/NT or Windows 4.0. Hey, when the 386-25 came out I remember
- hearing the same sorts of things. "Hey, nobody needs that much
- computer on their desktop!" Well, surprise. If the hardware exists,
- someone will make software that soaks up the performance.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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