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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Massive computer industry failures and layoff's coming soon!!!!
Message-ID: <3257@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 88 21:12:45 GMT
References: <593@lf-jr.BBN.COM>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <593@lf-jr.BBN.COM>, jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) says:
> Xref: cbmvax comp.misc:2032 misc.headlines:3560 misc.jobs.misc:1238 sci.electronics:2264 talk.rumors:1699
> In-reply-to: jbass@polyslo.UUCP (John L Bass)

> The only "supports" these types will put in are likely to have little impact
> on the PC industry (however defined) that is discussed in the article.  SDI
> and ARPA have little to do with clone makers.  The retraining implied above
> will not make it in the face of budget-slashing.

While the conservative forces aren't likely fund any of the supports, like
the aforementioned retraining, they've already made a few changes that greatly
affect the PC industry.  In a word, Ronald Raygun's DRAM deals with the
Japanese.  An effort to protect the US IC industries from the Japanese IC
industries at the expense of the US computer industries that use those DRAMs.
While  at the same time, strengthening the Japanese IC industry by forcing
them to make a profit on DRAMs.

Until there legislations, no company in the world with half a brain really
expected to make money on DRAM.  NEC, Toshiba, and TI included.  The best 
you can expect is to break even, or introduce a new technology and make a 
little on it before everyone else catches up.  The DRAM is an investment,
in that it drives the state of the art in profitable technologies.  At least
until you get some fool like Micron Technology, who really expects to make
lots of money selling DRAM.  'Cause that's nearly all they make.  So the
Regan administration makes the entire PC industry suffer in order to save the
few IC industry dinosaurs from their proper extinction.

I don't know if any other specific political group likely to assume power
here would have taken any better action, but it's hard to imagine anyone
else messing it up as badly as it was done by Regan and his cronies.

-- 
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