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- From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: ACK ANSI Compiler
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.010851.17372@crash>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 09:08:51 GMT
- References: <C0A7y8.ILD@cs.vu.nl>
- Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
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- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) wrote:
- : In article <1i5nm6INN40n@werple.apana.org.au>
- hock@werple.apana.org.au (Warwick Hockley) writes:
- : >I think the main point is that most people feel that the 3 compilers should
- : >be unbundled, and the price for each reduced appropriately.
- :
- :That doesn't work out economically.If we were to remove the Modula and Pascal
- : front ends, the amount of stuff on the distribution disk would only decrease
- : slightly, and the number of disks required wouldn't change at all. The amount
- : of overhead in processing the order wouldn't change, nor would the shipping
- : cost. In effect, we threw in the Pascal and Modula front ends for free.
- :
-
- The compiler and libraries take up < 1 360KB disk under 1.3. You appear
- to be implying that the bulk of the $200 cost is shipping and distribution.
- Looking at the current prices for commercial software, I'm pretty sure that
- one disk can be sold at a profit for a lot less than that. Alternatively,
- if you are saying that the new C compiler is of itself worth $200, then
- dream on.
-
- Will
- cwr@crash.cts.com
-