NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/sys/intel/2218

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From: [e-mail] (Thomas Hoberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Intel is wasting too much money on ads!
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Date: 11 Nov 92 03:53:16 GMT
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I live in Berlin, Germany. Walking through the streets, I see a big
486(Intel inside) sign on every second billboard all across the city,
that means you can hardly go anywhere and not see at least of those
signs...
I can not recall that any company however loosely associated with the
computer industry has ever come close to putting up that many signs.
I don't know how much money goes into this, but the only other
companies that have been able to afford such extravagance were those
that sell cancer sticks (Reynolds et.al.).

I've always paid dearly for my Intel CPUs. I used to think that it was
because they had high R&D costs and low yields. I'm getting my doubts.
I'd prefer it if Intel were to use it's money pile to make their CPUs
cheaper not to pay for ads or lawyers to sue the socks off AMD or
Cyrix. They could just keep on being better instead of trying to rape
the industry and the computer user. If this trend continues, I see it
as my duty as a citizen, to boycott Intel, just as I would (and have)
boycott a political tyrant.
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