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In article <C1I5xq.BGB@utstat.toronto.edu> philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Rob Tibshirani) writes:
In article <1k4udc$1cb@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes:

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>But then, at least in the NS486 market, it should be pretty easy for
>>a small clone maker to preload NS486 to their clone with tested
>>video cards, ethernet cards and hard disks.  And guarantee that things
>>work.  Loading NS486 to existing clones would be problematic, but
>>no one on the selling side is interested in that -- loads of troubles
>>and little money to be made.
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>Why on earth will users flock to NS486 when they have yet to leave DOS? There
>are so many OS's on the PC that it's getting confusing at this point. In any
>case, NS486 is hardly going to make a dent in sales and users of DOS, Windows,
>OS/2.

You are missing the point.  Of course sales of PC clones with NS486 will
not make any dent in the total PC sales.

But even a 0.01 % of PC's sold to run NS486 will eat NeXT's hardware sales,
because NeXT is selling that many in the first place.  The point is how
many users who would have bought NeXT hardware will instead buy 486 + NS486.
That number can only be 10,000 to seriously hurt NeXT.



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