[rescue] Re: SPARC memory query

[Jeffrey J. Nonken]

It's marketing, man. All marketing. They're trying to push quantity on the
masses, and the masses prefer to spend less money on lower quality than to
make a true investment. Cheaper in the short term, and the money you save
today can be used to buy more cheap gadgets to go with it.

Kind of hard to fight it, the whole damned economy has been pushed towards a
short-term bottom line philosophy for decades now. Planned obsolescence? Gah.
And laying off people looks like a great way to boost your profits, but
wouldn't it be nice if in two years there were somebody who can buy your
products?

Don't even get me started...

*casually wipes foam from mouth*

Happy Hannukah! And I hope everybody had a happy Thanksgiving, even those who
don't celebrate it at this time of year. :)


On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:34:50 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 05:27 PM, Gavin Hubbard wrote:
>>Come on Dave, be fair. I'm sure that PC designers would love to
>>throw
>>off the constraints of the historical architecture - but that
>>historical continuity is what makes a PC a PC.
>
>Well, ok...in all fairness, a lot of the problems that PeeCees have
>
>are due to the fact that they have to maintain backward
>compatibility.
>But that doesn't excuse them from creating a "religion" in which MHz
>is
>everything, then catering to that religion.
>
>>P.S. Well done on the big-iron - I thought an out-of-auction offer
>>might swing it ;-)
>
>Yeah it took a little doing, but I'm glad to keep the hardware out
>of
>the hands of the resellers...now (if I can get at least one of them
>running) we'll all have it to hack on.
>
>-Dave
>
>--
>Dave McGuire                 "You don't have Vaseline in Canada?"
>St. Petersburg, FL                     -Bill Bradford
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