Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:35

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William Taylor (wwtaylor@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: mobergru@oslonett.no writes:
: >All Microsoft's roads (specially including Win95) leads to NT...

: Only as long as RAM prices continue to drop. RAM for $20-25/MB will do
: more to spread NT than the Win95 Shell Update ever will. The fact is that
: NT needs 32MB to run optimally. Win95, MacOS PPC, and OS/2 only need half
: that. Right now, 32MB adds close to $1000 to the price of a PC...

Starting from 0M installed?

Actually 32M only adds about US$500 if you buy and install the memory
yourself.

On March 22, 1996, at the computer swapmeet at the L.A. County 
fairgrounds memory was going for:
    16M EDO   60ns    US$289
    8M  EDO   60ns    US$129
    16M 72x36 60ns    US$249

Tony
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