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>> Terry was asking a *question* here, to determine whether or not the
>> individual making claims that SCSI was significantly higher-priced was
>> speaking from a US market perspective (where they're cheaper) or from

>Ok, maybe I overreacted. But the fact is that I fail to see why does it
>matters if the prices were inside US or not. If the answer to that
>question was a "yes", what would it prove besides that that person in
>particular was wrong about prices? Will it change the reality in other
>countries? Will it have any significance at all on the development of
>FreeBSD?

I think if the answer was "No", his advice to go look up "Dirt Cheap
Drives" in Computer Shopper would likely be a useless suggestion.  His
advice only applied if you lived in the U. S.  Lighten up.

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