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Article #2308Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
From: Gaven Miller
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 23:17
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 23:17
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Nevin ":-]" Liber (nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU) wrote: > In article <19950904.1178078.10576@olympus.net>, dons@olympus.net (Don > Schmelling) wrote: > > Have you included mainframes, mini computers, super computers, etc into > > your numbers? > Yup. They are in the noise. Plus, most of the industries are trying to > move away from them towards workstations because the maintenance costs are > too darn high. Why are they so high? Because the customer base is small. Or is it because they have "we'll be on your doorstep before you've finished dialling our number" support? That level of support _is_ expensive to provide, but users of such expensive hardware _expect_ and, more likely, _demand_ that level of support. As one moves down the ladder towards workstations, the market seems to be going for "call for a serviceman and wait an hour for him to arrive". PCs, being consumerist, can not afford to bundle bigtime support contracts into the prices of the computer, so it becomes a third-party issue. And not all third party servicepeople are created equal. IMWO, of course.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.inca.co.nz!inca01!gmiller From: gmiller@inca.co.nz (Gaven Miller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS... Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Date: 23 Sep 1995 23:17:47 GMT Organization: INCA Message-ID: <4424ir$7s2@inca01.inca.co.nz> References: <3vh2hc$9dd@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <edodge-2208952351010001@ip-pdx8-10.teleport.com> <41gsef$rdg@steel.interlog.com> <edodge-2408951158270001@ip-pdx3-09.teleport.com> <41nnp2INNn8r@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <19950904.1178078.10576@olympus.net> <nevin-0709950221230001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: inca01.inca.co.nz X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]