From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 26 19:28:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25232 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:28:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25225 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:28:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from serv.net (dialup505.serv.net [207.207.70.70]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA04244; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:28:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:28:15 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: fewtch@serv.net From: Tim Gerchmez To: The Classiest Man Alive Subject: Re: How important is "the OS?" Cc: Marcel Mason {Personal} , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, arthur Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ... Unfortunately, there's very little that I would consider outrageously priced in the computer hardware area anymore (cars, well... different story). I WOULD like to see the price of digital cameras come down, the price of monitors fall faster than it is (it's dropping, but gradually), and flat-screen LED monitors become the norm (which I can almost guarantee they will be in 10-15 years, probably less). On 26-Jun-98 The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Tim Gerchmez Date: 26-Jun-98 Time: 19:25:27 This message was sent by XFMail under Fvwm2 and FREEBSD. My personal website is at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html Take a look if you have the time - something for everyone there. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message