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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: New Moto chips (was Will NeXT survive?)
Message-ID: <N64B5=6@xds13.ferranti.com>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
References: <3397@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <14720@encore.Encore.COM> <1991May03.182247.25757@kithrup.COM>
Date: Tue, 7 May 91 01:37:47 GMT

In article <1991May03.182247.25757@kithrup.COM>, sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
> In article <009480D4.E6FADF40@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
> >I hate the marketing dweebs at Intel (yes, Intel) who started pushing this idea
> >of making and selling castrated chips to capture market share.... 

> And I hate the educational dweebs at UMD (yes, UMD) who started pushing this
> idea that all things they dislike are evils started by Intel.

Sure. Crippling a product and selling it for less has a long history. I
remember a multi-thousand dollar upgrade for a Honeywell printer that 
involved removing a PC card and flipping a switch. Intel is just the first
chip manufacturer to get the sort of demand curve that lets them get away
with this. Blame the consumers who keep buying trash and then buying more
and bigger CPUs to try to make that trash look good.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter@ferranti.com
+1 713 274 5180.  'U`  "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
