peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (03/03/90)
> Uhhh, it isn't a microcomputer unless I can buy three of them for under > $10,000, and still have money to put gas in the car. That's a good way of putting it. I like to say a personal computer should cost no more than the down-payment on that car. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.uu.net>. / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'
underdog@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) (03/03/90)
In article <ZQ:1N+5xds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: || Uhhh, it isn't a microcomputer unless I can buy three of them for under || $10,000, and still have money to put gas in the car. | |That's a good way of putting it. I like to say a personal computer should |cost no more than the down-payment on that car. We'll never see prices like those unless we encourage such cutthroat competition that the market reaches a point of critical mass at which a shake-out is almost certain. In other words, I can hardly wait for the day when we'll be flooded with all sorts of cheap RISC work-station clones. (Remember the PC clone wars?) Then, you'll probably see a Parcstation I (clone of the Sparcstation I) go for about ...oh... $1000.
sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) (03/06/90)
>In article <ZQ:1N+5xds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >|| Uhhh, it isn't a microcomputer unless I can buy three of them for under >|| $10,000, and still have money to put gas in the car. >| >|That's a good way of putting it. I like to say a personal computer should >|cost no more than the down-payment on that car. > >We'll never see prices like those unless we encourage such cutthroat >competition that the market reaches a point of critical mass >at which a shake-out is almost certain. Being an ECON major at heart, the market does its own thing, so long as no one has a monopoly. IBM's move with it's RISC machine keeps DEC and Sun and HP honest. >In other words, I can hardly wait for the day when we'll be >flooded with all sorts of cheap RISC work-station clones. >(Remember the PC clone wars?) Then, you'll probably see >a Parcstation I (clone of the Sparcstation I) go for about >...oh... $1000. The Japanese and Taiwanese and the Koreans (South, of course) all have plans to go do SPARC implementations; look for Toshiba to give us portable SPARC, Taiwan and Korea to give us $5K SPARC boxes which will compete with Sun and DECs low-end machines.