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From: boylan@dicomed.UUCP (Chris Boylan)
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Subject: Re: AT&T and the 3B2 (in defense of partitioning)
Message-ID: <193@dicomed.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-Jun-84 09:57:48 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  3 09:57:48 1984
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The point is that most people WANT a loaded [object goes here].

Partitioning makes the APPARENT price lower while in reality
people don't buy the base [object goes here].  An example or two:

The price of the recommended car configuration from consumer
reports for a particular brand is about 20% over the "price"
of the car as advertised.

UNIX for (say) the Apple Lisa is 495, BUT if you want to write
a C program on it or relink the system it costs 1495.

As I said before, the really great thing about partitioning is
it's usefulness as a marketing tool.  It's so easy to get sucked
in by it ...
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	Chris Boylan
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