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Date:      Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:52:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        Kenneth Merry <ken@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu>, hardware@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: P6 prices??
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.961018174934.3259A-100000@protocol.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610181714.KAA27073@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>

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On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> > 
> > 	Does anyone know why P6 prices have gone up so much recently?  For
> > example, check out:
> > 
> > http://www.thechipmerchant.com/prices.htm
> > 
> > 	$975 for the 256K version and $1140 for the 512K version.  IIRC,
> > the 256K P6's were around $600 not too long ago.  What happened?
> 
> Demand >>>> Supply  (Demand is greater than supply)

Well, some more can be said.  Demand didn't so much go up as the supply
disappeared.  I don't know this to be true personally, but there are also
stories of Intel shipping box of product that included things wildly
different than the shipping labels read.  You can read more about that at:

http://www.esc-ca.com/

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