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From: ernest@pegasus.dsg.tandem.com (Ernest Hua)
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Subject: How much for a 487SX?!!
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Date: 22 Apr 91 15:58:03 GMT
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In today's Wall Street Journal (B6 col 3)...  (is this a *@#!! misprint?)

    ... the 486DX [sells for] $581 and up ...

    ... the 486SX is $258 apiece ... Intel has disabled ... the floating point
    unit ...

    ... the 487SX ... will list for $799 ...

Now simple arithmetic shows that a simple design with a 486DX will cost

    $581 for the CPU

while a complicated design (allowing for the presence or absence of the 487SX)
will cost

    $258 or $1057 for the CPU

depending upon your tastes.  Who would be stupid enough to do the more complex
design?!!!

-- 
Ernest Hua, Associate Design Engineer                         ernest@tandem.com
Tandem Computers, 19333 Vallco Parkway, Cupertino, CA  95014       408-285-5580