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Date:      Tue, 3 Jul 2001 00:18:21 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Bsdguru@aol.com
Cc:        nate@yogotech.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20010703001821.A3034@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <12d.dc435a.28724adf@aol.com>; from Bsdguru@aol.com on Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 06:08:31PM -0400
References:  <12d.dc435a.28724adf@aol.com>

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On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 06:08:31PM -0400, Bsdguru@aol.com wrote:
> 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. 

Might be true, but embedded folks tend to use something else than a
run-of-the-mill mainboard.

I think this whole thread boils down to: "YMMV".

Let it die (please..)

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