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From: wallwey@boulder.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Brain-dead 286 - summary
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Date: 9 Mar 90 22:33:01 GMT
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In article <3298@trantor.harris-atd.com> wcurtiss@x102c.ess.harris.com writes:
>... the spread between a 8088/86 and 286 will
>drop and the gap between the 286 and 386SX/DX will widen).

I completely disagree... The price gap between the 286 and the 386SX/DX
is going to get closer and closer--Just like it has been for 2 years!!!!

There are also some new reasons why the price of the 386SX/386DX is even
going to get closer.  The new presure is the 486.  You can already get
complete 25Mhz 486 systems with 40MB drives and mono VGA for under
$5000.  This is and is going to further drive down the cost of the 386DX
systems.  This in turn presses down the cost of 386SX systems.  This
would press down the cost 286 systems, but they are already almost sold
at COST prices.  Also 8086 motherboards haven't gone down in 2 or more
years!!!  It's only the drop in price of external extras (cases, adapters, power
supplies, monitors, disk drives) that have actually been driving prices
of 8088 and 286 systems down in price in the last six months, and these
apply just as well to 386SX/DX systems!!!

Keep looking for 386 systems to become better deals, and 286 systems to
look like more a waste of money.

		Dean