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- From: burke@vxdesy.desy.de (Stephen Burke)
- Subject: Re: That 1000 pound sampling card
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.184705.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
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- References: <1jvbkhINNc7v@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.113216.8261@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.141717.1881@maths.tcd.ie>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:47:05 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.141717.1881@maths.tcd.ie>, chughes@maths.tcd.ie (Conrad Hughes) writes:
- > Last figures I heard, there were a few hundred thousand Archimedes
- > out there and more than a few tens of millions of PCs, so the margin
- > is even worse - the Arc manufacturer can only expect a market size
- > perhaps a hundredth that of a PC manufacturer..
-
- Yes, but in the PC world there are probably at least 10 companies competing
- for the market for every one in the Acorn world (big fish in small ponds and
- all that).
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