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From: rfarris@serene.UUCP (Rick Farris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dram Prices...
Message-ID: <274@serene.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 89 06:12:54 GMT
References: <18814@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: rfarris@serene.UUCP (Rick Farris)
Organization: RF Engineering, Del Mar, California
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In article <18814@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> c60a-4fl@widow.berkeley.edu (Antony A. Courtney) writes:

> The Japanese Government was subsidizing Japanese companies to sell
> DRAMs way below cost.  As such, there was no possible way that US
> Companies could stay in competition with this.  The end result: US
> Companies stopped making DRAMs.

To start off with, there's no excuse for not trimming articles that
you're replying to.  Don't include the whole thing.  Learn to use the
editor.  In vi, "dd" deletes lines.

Now.  If the Japanese were willing to to sell DRAMs at less than
cost, then US companies should have bought all they could supply.
Maybe with US subsidization.  Wanna match GNPs?  I mean it's pretty
simple, how deep are the pockets?  If we had bought all they could
produce, at a cheaper cost than the cost of production, it would be
*their* manufacturers that were out of business, not ours.  Maybe we
shut down production for a while, but we're buying their DRAMs and
selling them at a profit.  They're losing money, we're making money.
It's called capitalism.

Just think, we would all have 20 MB RAM drives, paid for by the
Japanese.  Remember when RAM was $80 per megabyte?  Instead, we've
lost our DRAM manufacturers anyway, and we're paying $300/MB.


Rick Farris   RF Engineering  POB M  Del Mar, CA  92014   voice (619) 259-6793
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