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From: nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DRAM Price
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Date: 27 Feb 90 19:40:00 GMT
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 Elbereth@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) posts...
:> >> Does anyone have a reasonable forecast on how low the price for 1 Meg, 100
:> >> ns Drams will end up (through mail-order companies) ? I need som more RAM,
:> >> is it worth waiting a couple of months more ?
:> >
:
:Yes, it's a bit late for a follow-up, but I've been busy, and am still
:trying to catch up with the news rather than just clear it all out.
:
:Essentially, 1Mb prices have been tied to 4Mb, at 20% of the 4Mb's price
:(chip for chip, not bit for bit!). Both are expected to follow the slow
:-30% per annum curve for the forseeable future, and the advent of the 16Mb
:devices next year is unlikely to impact upon this.
:Put another way, waiting a couple of moths is worth little more than the
                                      ^^^^^
:interest the bank pays. A couple of years would pay well.
                                                  


  Does this mean that these devices are still buggy?

                                                      ---Peter