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From: Neil Palmer <neilp@dpslink.com> > Oh ? It just magically appears with no cost for writing or maintaining it > ? You're writing the cose for IBM for free ? ;-) > (I know - certainly NOT enough cost in it to explain the price > difference). > that is, of course, what I meant. Even a $89 PC disk drive needs a driver program that also costs money, but we are talking pennies. In IBM's case probably not pennies, but certainly such a minute fraction of the total disk drive cost that I doubt (as you do) that that is what is driving the price up into the stratosphere.
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