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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!odi!ed
- From: ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. 386
- In-Reply-To: peter@global.hacktic.nl's message of Sat, 14 Nov 1992 11:08:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.221220.12528@odi.com>
- Organization: Object Design, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov4.232958.11318@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <92110612229@drktowr.chi.il.us> <1992Nov11.211546.10771@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Nov14.110834.524@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 22:12:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.110834.524@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
- >>I hope the 586 comes out soon so I can get my 486/DX2-66 at a lower price :)
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- >I wouldn't count on a lot of price impact right away. Pentium will be
- >high-priced for some little while after its release.
-
- Sure, the 586 and the 486 do not have any competition. Yet. When AMD or any
- other competitor comes out with a 486, we'll see that the Intel 486 will drop
- in price rapidly to lower the margins of the competitor's processors.
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- A look at Intel's price list will show that their marketing policy (at least
- insofar as published qty-1000 prices go) is strictly based on price/performance.
- There is no "knee" in the curve when you get to the 386/486 boundary.
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