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The note that I received that accompanies the link:<br>
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"Just threw away my Intel 66 MHz 486 machine (nobody wants it), which my
company bought for over $5,000. <br>
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Now I can buy a PC with dual CPUs (for a "total of 3.6 GHz"--since clock
rate becomes irrelevant after a certain speed, 2x1.8 GHz is actually better
than 1x3.6 GHz, if some company is dumb enough to try to produce it) for less
than 40% of that price. Things have really changed, haven't they? <br>
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I think this superPC will be very useful in doing graphics (especially video
editting), and as a thin-client server. But I am doing neither of these.
:-(</font></font>"<br>
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W. Wayne Liauh wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid3CF3B38D.7030701@Hawaii.rr.com">Hi, I don't
know if anyone reads the following news, but it says that the Chinese government
budgeted about $800 million dollars (US) for buying software, preference
will be given to Linux based software: <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.udnnews.com/NEWS/FINANCE/TAIWAN-CHINA/839481.shtml">http://www.udnnews.com/NEWS/FINANCE/TAIWAN-CHINA/839481.shtml</a> <br>
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The article also said that software industry is growing rapidly in China,
total sales of software and related services exceeded 2.5 billion, an increase
of 31% over last year. <br>
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wayne <br>
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