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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Useful? (was OS cost component of workstation)
Message-ID: <C_+6++F@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 13 Nov 90 00:56:56 GMT
References: <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> <3686@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1990Nov1.234831.2066@ico.isc.com> <3699@skye.ed.ac.uk> <2840@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <T_Y6OYC@xds13.ferranti.com> <EGDORF.90Nov11125338@zaphod.lanl.gov>
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In article <EGDORF.90Nov11125338@zaphod.lanl.gov> egdorf@zaphod.lanl.gov (Skip Egdorf) writes:
1976, $70K system was OK. '79, $145K system was OK. '82, $150K system was OK.
'84, $40K system was OK.

Fine, but the system I was using, with 72M of disk, was a $3K system. Some
folks don't have the price of a house to spend on their computer.
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Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
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