25 Mar
2002
25 Mar
'02
5:45 a.m.
Rumor has it that Hans Franke may have mentioned these words:
[[and the original poster said before that...]]
Not all Basic's are created equal -- I'd still give my left <ahem> to be
able to run a Basic09-like package [for OS-9] on my other machines... That
was another very powerful Basic.
How much do you think it costs Micro$haft to make a new version of windows,
compared to the number of copies they jam down our throats?
As as been said many times before, they only charge what the market will bear.
If Apple got a lot of people to buy them, and folks didn't complain about
the price, <M$Rant> and Apple didn't stifle competition so they could jack
up the prices even more </M$Rant> does it really matter what they charged
vs. what it cost them to build?
<going OT> Most car chargers for cell phones cost between $20 - $35 USD
each retail - they cost the dealers between $1.95 - $2.95 each, quantity
10.</going OT>
The beauty of capitalism. <g>
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
This and that
is still was a BASIC machine with no real disks.
Come on, first of all, a basic like the QL Super Sasic is quite
different from everything else you know ... QDOS is a multitasking
OS, and the Basic incooperates all features to use the windowing
and taskingsystem from within. it is jut not comperable to all the
MS-Basic crap found on 90% of all old homecomputers. I found out
that it cost APPLE $100 ??? to make the $500 ??? floppy
system for their computer reading the history of the apple from a web
site.
That's called best bussines practice :))