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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: OS cost component of workstation
Message-ID: <3699@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Nov 90 20:13:39 GMT
References: <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> <3686@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1990Nov1.234831.2066@ico.isc.com>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <1990Nov1.234831.2066@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>Fine.  Now show me how many people will buy a machine assuming they can get
>the OS free "with luck" and "in a year"!  Yeah, you bet, I'm going out to
>buy a few $K of hardware hoping I'll get lucky in the next year or so to
>have free software for it.

Fine.  Now show me where I suggested anyone should.  

I merely pointed it out because when it happens, which might or might
not be within a year, it's likely to make quite a difference to the 
workstation market.  In particular, I think it will extend that market
downwards to cheap 386 machines.

-- Richard
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