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From: yeung@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Woodrow Yeung)
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Subject: Re: World's Cheapest Unix Engine
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Date: 10 Jul 90 02:15:32 GMT
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In article <2329@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (billdavidsen) writes:
> Since the only low prices UNIX around is V.3.2 (and maybe V.4 soon) 
>for the 386, that is the choice. Since the cost of the DX chip is 
>artificially high (I would bet the manufacturing and development cost is 
>within 10% of the SX) the SX is the only practical choice.

I sure hope the SX is only 10% more expensive to make.  It would be pretty
silly for Intel to put any more engineering effort in making the 386SX than
to disable some 16 line on the 386. Thus, the 386SX chip is a more expensive
chip, Cost = 386 + lobotomy.  

Now if aluminum were as cheap as silicon, we'd be seeing 5.0L 4 cylinder
Porsches that look identical to the 928's V8; the only difference would be 4
faulty fuel injectors that can't be fixed.

Nah, that would be too obvious of a case of price discrimination.  Hey any
law students reading this?  You should call up AMD, Harris or even NEC and
launch an illegal price competition suit.  Oh! I forgot, only Motorola gets
nailed by lawsuits. ;-)

yeung@reed
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