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- From: davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis)
- Subject: Re: Price of new machines
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:46:43 GMT
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- Mr J L Saunders (maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk) wrote:
- :
- : I know all this is expecting a lot, but maybe when the new machine comes out
- : Acorn should follow Sun's example by setting a standard and licencing it out to
- : third parties. That way hopefully we'll get some cheap, good quality machines
- : that really compete with the rest of the workstation industry.
- :
-
- isn't this basically what IBM have done with the PC. They are now getting
- wiped out by the proliferation of cheap clones...
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- This is how I see thinks anyhow...
-
- Mik
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