From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 18 14:53:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA25471 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:53:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA25464 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:52:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from protocol.eng.umd.edu (protocol.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.180]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.1/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA14065; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:52:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by protocol.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA03286; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:52:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: protocol.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:52:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@protocol.eng.umd.edu To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: Kenneth Merry , hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: P6 prices?? In-Reply-To: <199610181714.KAA27073@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/ ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------