From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 26 15:15:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16246 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 15:15:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zephyr.cybercom.net (zephyr.cybercom.net [209.21.146.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16214 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 15:14:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ksmm@threespace.com) Received: from shell1.cybercom.net (ksmm@shell1.cybercom.net [209.21.136.6]) by zephyr.cybercom.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA02209; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 18:14:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ksmm@localhost) by shell1.cybercom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA03894; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 18:14:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.cybercom.net: ksmm owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 18:14:26 -0400 (EDT) From: The Classiest Man Alive X-Sender: ksmm@shell1.cybercom.net To: Tim Gerchmez cc: arthur , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Marcel Mason {Personal} Subject: Re: How important is "the OS?" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: : Ditto, especially with RAM and hard drive prices. Remember when a 4 meg : stick of RAM cost $120 or so? What you probably don't remember was that : was in 1995, just 3 years ago!! I remember starting a thread in a : Usenet newsgroup titled "RAM prices outrageous!" - ironically, about 3 : days after posting that message, RAM prices began their precipitous : fall. Oh, really? Why don't you start a new thread about Voodoo 2 prices or 400 MHz Pentium II prices or something? For that matter, I really like those new Lexuses... :-) K.S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message