From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) Subject: Re: 486SXs as Unix Iron? Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 07:07:05 GMT
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.
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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