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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: $5000 workstations (???)
Message-ID: <1990Apr10.221406.13391@world.std.com>
Date: 10 Apr 90 22:14:06 GMT
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In-Reply-To: phil@pepsi.amd.com's message of 3 Apr 90 02:07:36 GMT


>How many 286/386/486 chips are bought every year? How many SPARC chips?
>
>--
>Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com		{uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil

I don't understand your point, are you saying that it's the cost of
the CPU chip (lowered by high volume) which makes cheaper RISC systems
impossible? I don't think that bears up under scrutiny.
-- 
        -Barry Shein

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