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- From: drw@riesz.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
- Subject: Re: Code quality
- Reply-To: drw@riesz.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
- Organization: MIT Dept. of Tetrapilotomy, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:24:26 GMT
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- Keywords: performance
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- bill@amber.csd.harris.com (Bill Leonard) writes:
- Most users are not going to upgrade their CPUs every year, nor even every
- 2 years, but they are highly likely to upgrade their compilers every year
- (if nothing else, for bug fixes).
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- If I remember correctly, the product lifetime for workstations is 18
- months heading downward toward 12 months. A lot of computers are thrown
- out because the manufacturer has discontinued support.
-
- Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu
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