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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: How many different processors do you use?
Date: 1999/06/10
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In article <7jomhf$l5e$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  muddy_buddy@my-deja.com wrote:

> I remember it being looked at pretty hard.  Does anyone have
> some price lists from the 80's.

Yes, of course we know prices, a lot of us were around then :-)

As one example, a complete professional development system from
Alsys for the PC cost $3000, including a 4 meg memory board
which in those days was worth about $1000.

This was the most expensive option for the PC, two other
companies (RR and Meridian) made far less expensive compilers
available.

All these compilers were available at reduced prices to
universities.

You seem to be talking about the cost of one particular compiler
on a chip that was, in the Ada market, fairly marginal. You can
not assume that all other Ada systems cost the same amount.


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