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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: economics meets technology: was SSI
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 18:37:04 GMT
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- More than one poster noted:
- >a machine on the floor
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- I have always wondered where the thresholds of success are.
- More than one company actually delivered 1-2 machines in the field.
- A few companies made tens of deliveries, and even Alliant delivered
- 500 machines or so during its time. Some still living vendors have yet to
- break 100 machines while others have over 1000 delivered.
- It is perhaps our perspective of time since it might be that all these
- businesses fail in the long run (century or more even).
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- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
- Associate Editor, Software and Publication Reviews
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- Seeking Books to buy: Bongard, Pattern Recognition
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