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=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, LOTS_OF_MONEY,MSGID_RANDY 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: 103376,c2f4cdd9ccfb8ede X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1904a679c27288b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1904a679c27288b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: How many different processors do you use? Date: 1999/06/25 Message-ID: <7l02ro$52i$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 493763679 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> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x37.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Jun 25 14:14:29 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-06-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , markh@usai.asiainfo.com wrote: > So, a vendor which was charging $2000 per seat (list > price) for a C compiler was at the same time charging > $10,000 per seat for the equivalent Ada system. > You could argue that the Ada system did 5 times more > than the C system, but the impression I got was that > they charged more simply because they felt they could, > and that other vendors would pay since they would > consider it as a necessary cost of doing business > with the government. Much more likely was that the market for C was much greater than the market for Ada. That clearly gets reflected in the price. There are often also considerably different levels of support involved. Think about televisions, I can buy a very nice 25" television for $250 these days, but if I want a monitor of similar size for a computer, they cost a lot more. Better quality? Well that's part of it, but mostly there are far more 25" television sets in the world than large screen computer monitors. In the case of software the manufacturing cost is very low, so everything comes down to volume and support requirements. There is also the general issue of trying to guess the elasticity of the market. Some Ada vendors tried the low cost product approach, but in Ada 83 days at least, this was not very successful. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.