[Novalug] hardware plateaux??

[Jon LaBadie]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:01:00AM -0600, Beartooth wrote:
> 
>  	Back in the day, I was told, the effect of Moore's Law 
> was not that PCs got cheaper, but that what you got for a given 
> price doubled. And there were fairly stable plateaux, almost like 
> a staircase : one in particular ran close to $2000.
> 
>  	At or above that you got a substantially better machine.
> 
>  	But that was long ago and far away. Is there any such 
> thing going on still? Or are prices and values, as I suspect, now 
> all over the park??

I do know that for 10 - 20 years, the computer I "wanted" to buy
always cost the same; just more than I wanted to spend :)

jl
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