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- From: MJW19@phx.cam.ac.uk (Michael Williams)
- Subject: Re: That 1000 pound sampling card
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.164141.13313@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Keywords: Rip off, 16 bit 44.1 kHz sampling, SCSI
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:41:41 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
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >hundred million?
- >is even worse - the Arc manufacturer can only expect a market size
- >perhaps a hundredth that of a PC manufacturer..
-
- Ah yes, but the PC market also has more manufacturers fighting for the same
- market which brings the ratio back down.
-
- Mike.
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