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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 18:08:31 EDT
Subject: Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD
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In a message dated 07/02/2001 12:16:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
nate@yogotech.com writes:

> > You are way off on your pricing. Way off. A 633 Celeron 
>  > is under 50. Q1 for petes sake. The cost difference would be less than 
$20.
>  
>  > in quantity. It would be less than $80. Q1.
>  
>  That's just CPU.  You've left off the motherboard, as well as the memory
>  and other supporting hardware required for the CPU to do the work.
>  

Entire PIII MBs are available for under $60. Your concept that the delta in 
cost between a 486 chipset and PIII is more that that is utterly ridiculous  
PIII chipsets and 486 chipsets cost the same in quantity. Try using a 
resource other than your Radio Shack catalogue please. 

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