Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!jackson From: jackson@utzoo.UUCP (Don Jackson) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: R&D Message-ID: <7258@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Oct-86 15:58:22 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.7258 Posted: Sun Oct 26 15:58:22 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Oct-86 15:58:22 EST References: <994@husc2.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 9 The big difference for the price is the fact that IBM is footing the bill for the Research and Development of the system while the clones simply use existing technology. They can recover their investment at a substantially lower price than IBM can. -- Name: Don Jackson Mail: Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 UUCP: {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!jackson