From: Paul Jakma (paulj at domain alphyra.ie)
Date: Thu 28 Jun 2001 - 14:10:22 IST
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, kevin lyda wrote:
> they made cheap computers compared to their competition - dec and
> ibm. are suns cheap compared to pc's? no, of course not, but they
> *were* much cheaper then their peers at the time.
so they operated at the lower-end of the Unix(TM) price range.
however, all of them cared for nothing more than to sell their kit at
very high prices.
none of them were interested in high-volume, low cost, computers for
the masses.
> context is rather important.
aye, so i can a new Sun Blade with a slow CPU, IDE and no graphics for
just over a grand. excuse me while i rush over to horizon.
> kevin
--paulj
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