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In <1992Nov9.200839.27999@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague) 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.

Unless, of course, it's the only way to get decent performance out of
Windows/NT or Windows 4.0.  Hey, when the 386-25 came out I remember
hearing the same sorts of things.  "Hey, nobody needs that much
computer on their desktop!"  Well, surprise.  If the hardware exists,
someone will make software that soaks up the performance.

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