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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: the death of the All Charge Card
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Date: 29 Jun 90 06:36:02 GMT
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phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <1981@cod.NOSC.MIL> ganzer@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Mark T. Ganzer) writes:
>|Don't always assume the same path works best for everybody. In my case, I
>|have a Zenith 248. I had 2.5 MB of extended memory boards for it laying
>
>Ok, but you shouldn't assign the cost of 2.5 megs of new Zenith memory,
>but rather the cost of 2.5 more megs for the SX motherboard. 1 megabyte
>is around $70-80 now. Minus whatever you could sell the Zenith for
>(probably someone could use the RAM chips at least).
>
>You're right about cost of the coprocessor, for people who must
>have one.

I believe it will be the death of the All-Charge Card if the company folds. 
Since there's a large installed base of 286 boxes, no sense in chucking
something that works.

What the maker of the All-Charge card should do is make an implementation of
Unix that utilitizes the capabilities of the All-Charge card, it would make
for an interesting and quite usable product.

Just like my soon-to-be ex-boss (who was a regional VP for AMD), you assume
that your way is the right and only way.  Maybe it comes from working from
AMD?  :)
 
     // JCA

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