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In article <1992Nov9.200839.27999@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se writes:
>Derek Schott writes:
>>
>>After watching the market trend, I have the funniest feeling that
>>everything has about hit rock bottom. A lot of people keep saying 
>>that the introduction of the i586 is going to severely cut the
>>prices of both the 386 and 486 machines. Although it might drop
>>the prices at first, I don't see why it is going to cut them so
>>much.
>
>Not to mention that very few people actually need a 586 (aka Pentium).
>How many people--excepting ray-tracing fanatics and people who do
>serious number crunching--have had any speed problems with a 33 MHz
>486?  For the mass-market, the Pentium is a solution waiting for
>a problem (like CD-I).  I can't see people scrambling to buy them,
>unless they are one of the rising number of buzzword addicts.

No...  I think that UN*X and Windoze NT need every CPU cycle they can get.

Every time the CPU speed increases (and memory and hard disk sizes, etc.) the
software requirements increase to fill the gap.  It never fails!

If you don't ever change your software, I guess you'll never need to upgrade 
your hardware either (unless your usage increases, but that's another story).
If you have version X of a piece of software you can bet that version X+1 will
need more CPU time, and more memory, and more disk space...

Harry
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