10 Nov
2006
10 Nov
'06
2:55 p.m.
In article <4554E89B.8020605 at compsys.to>,
"Jerome H. Fine" <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> writes:
I don't have any estimates as to how much
"insane" might be,
but as a wild guess, from 10 to 1000 times the actual
cost of the associated software and hardware for the
actual system. [...]
Another application area where requalifying new equipment is
prohibitively expensive is anything regulated by the FDA as a medical
device. There is one medical equipment manufacturer that routinely
seeks out shrink-wrapped copies of DOS 6.2 in order to ship new
equipment. It keeps this guy in business <http://www.oldsoftware.com/>.
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