Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:29:25 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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Joshua Buysse writes: > > >> I expect most Linux users will stay with Intel CPUs. There is a price > >> imperative for a lot of people... > >The Alpha machines are not THAT expensive (relatively, of course). A > The > >Microway "Screamer 533", 533MHz, 4.3GB Seagate Barracuda UW-SCSI, 8x > IDE > >CD-ROM, 2MB Matrox Millenium, Adaptec 2940 UW-SCSI, 128MB RAM, 2MB SRAM > cache, > >4 PCI slots and 2 ISA slots costs $2,995 US (see The Linux Journal, Jan > 1998, > >p.44). For such a machine the price isn't that high - and I daresay it > will > >get lower with time. > > > But, do you want to exclude anybody who happens to buy a sub-US$1000 > PC from ever using Linux? Some people do see the light too late, and > $2995 > is still too much for the average student. If you need a workstation to > do > your programming classwork on, you've just said that it's cheaper to buy > a cheap PC, WinNT or 98, and Microsoft's Visual Studio (Education price, > of course) than to buy a machine that can run Linux. > > That's plain and simple arrogance.
I'm glad someone else noticed :-)
This whole thread has generated quite a bit of testosterone-charged posturing.
Regards,
Richard....
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