Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:01:47 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM Message-ID: <21649.837554507@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:17:20 PDT." <199607161917.MAA03813@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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> I fail to see value in "disposable" hardware. That's just wasteful. In > the long-run, you end up spending _more_ than you did on just one piece > of good hardware. While I agree with your comments about spending an extra buck or two on things like SCSI, generally recouping the cost in reduced hair loss and psychiatric sessions, I can't say agree that there's no point at all in deliberately producing disposable solutions. Considering that 99.9% of all computer hardware is disposable *whether you like it or not*, be it PC or Sparc (I wouldn't, for example, accept a SPARCstation I as a gift) and won't be useful for much more than 3-5 years, I can see some definite situations in which it would make sense to throw a disposable 486 at some problem with full knowledge that you'll be throwing the damn thing away (or giving it to a local high school) in a short period of time. Such is simply realism in this industry. Jordan
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