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From: rnss@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Ron Schreiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: RAM chips
Message-ID: <2444@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 88 18:20:24 GMT
References: <880310-105218-1986@Xerox>
Reply-To: rnss@ihuxy.UUCP (Ron Schreiner)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <880310-105218-1986@Xerox> "chaz_heritage.WGC1RX"@XEROX.COM writes:

Actually he forwarded some info about DRAM prices

>1)	The Japanes
>	price got down to pennies a chip.

>2)	The Americans got priced out of business, so they shut down their chip
>	manufacturing lines -

>		Then screamed to their congressmen to "protect" them.

I was under the impression that
certain Japanese manufactors
were "dumping" DRAMs at below cost,
in an attemp to push the the
border-line American companies over
the edge.


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Ron Schreiner   AT&T Bell Labs  ...ihnp4!ihuxy!rnss