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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: 486SXs as Unix Iron?
- Message-ID: <BxA93u.Gt3@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Homosexual Fascist Lobby, Rampant Paranoia Division
- References: <1992Nov4.223834.9454@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <Bx8DBp.CMu@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Nov5.180649.3718@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 07:07:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.180649.3718@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >In <Bx8DBp.CMu@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >
- >>I'm not complaining; it sounds like I'm getting all of the DX power I
- >>need from a machine that costs several hundred dollars less.
- >
- >Well, you get all that machine until you find you need a math
- >coprocessor and have no good way to add one cheaply.
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- Assuming that I will find I need one.
-
- >You'd have been
- >better off (as would we all) if they had simply dropped the price of
- >the DX parts.
-
- But they didn't. C'est la vie.
-
- >>What do
- >>you think the price difference is the result of -- general silicon
- >>shoddiness?
- >
- >Arbitrary marketing decision, with no justification in cost.
-
- Except on general ethical grounds, I don't see any reason to complain.
-
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- ____ Tim Pierce /
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