Re: Lambs to the slaughter

Robert Harley (Robert.Harley@inria.fr)
Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:37:24 +0100 (MET)


>How is it that the day after an announcement by Intel that there is a major
>flaw in most of their chips which makes the vulnerable to attack, their
>stock is UP?

That would be because among the vast numbers of P5 owners, there are
surely millions of lemmings who will go out and buy more Intel chips
to replace their duds.

Built-in obsolescence never hurt a monopoly.

-- Rob.