From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f849b,857262ad7d0ad537 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1904a679c27288b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c2f4cdd9ccfb8ede X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1904a679c27288b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: How many different processors do you use? Date: 1999/06/28 Message-ID: <37777F80.E8C5B7CC@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 494772253 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <7j1qng$4fp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37576ded.26569745@news.mpx.com.au> <7j8ac0$eah$1@uranium.btinternet.com> <7jh07e$tek$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jhp34$6f1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jjij7$qci$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jl9n3$n9j$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> <19990610.7A689D8.FF4B@mojaveg.ridgecrest.ca.us> <7jtgbj$8ct$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7l02ro$52i$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37739338.761297047@news.bellglobal.com> <7l6kpq$404$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: diespammer@pwfl.com Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-06-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > In article <37739338.761297047@news.bellglobal.com>, > pitchl@tdbank.ca wrote: > > Could not the "Defense Contractor" billing mindset also figure > into this? > > Since Ada was/is the required language for DOD work, it might > suffer from > > the same inflationary pricing that introduced multi-hundred > dollar toilet seats > > to the DOD. > > No ... > Wellll..... I'm basically with you, but there is this caveat: The DoD buys lots of stuff that is highly customized, really low production run - maybe even one of a kind. In that kind of market, you expect to pay through the nose to get it. In some ways Ada started out in that position. It was a custom designed language with an immediate market of defense contractors who couldn't wriggle out of The Mandate. That wasn't a lot of people, so it was a custom built, short production run product. Somebody was going to pay for all that engineering and it can't be the vendor. Obviously, nobody became the "Bill Gates Of Ada Compilers" so it doesn't look like anybody was bilking the government out of millions - it must have been pretty close to the bone. MDC -- Marin David Condic Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** Visit my web page at: http://www.mcondic.com/