Re: 486 vs. 386

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From: James Hague
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 20:08

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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.

--
James Hague   
exuhag@exu.ericsson.se

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From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
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Subject: Re: 486 vs. 386
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