From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 12 18:35:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA19056 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 18:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA19048 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 18:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA12123; Tue, 13 May 1997 11:04:46 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705130134.LAA12123@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? In-Reply-To: <199705121918.MAA08071@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "May 12, 97 12:18:29 pm" To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 11:04:46 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > The unit production cost is the thing, and SMC is going to have a > lower unit production cost than "Joe Schmoe" because of quantity > price breaks from their vendors, and economies of scale on production. They also have brand identification and loyalty that lets them sell their product successfully at twice the price of a "noname" startup competitor, with equivalent (or lower) manufacturing costs. > If you think DEC isn't going to sell those specs to "Joe Schmoe" in > order to protect SMC's market, then you have another thing coming. This is the beauty of the seperated chip/board vendor model 8) > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[