From: "Michael A. Covington" <covington@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: How many different processors do you use?
Date: 1999/06/28
Date: 1999-06-28T14:16:10+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7l803a$tj6$1@nntp3.atl.mindspring.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37777DAC.68C697DD@pwfl.com
| > 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.
|
| This is a bit of a myth. The legendary $400 hammers come not from
| unscrupulous defense contractors, but rather as a consequence of the
| DoD's own accounting rules.
I'm glad to see somebody point this out. I had always figured that the
"$400 hammer" was due to someone mixing up the development costs with the
unit costs.
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1999-06-08 0:00 ` How many different processors do you use? muddy_buddy
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Something doesn't compute here (was Re: How many different processors do you use?) David Kristola
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Jim Prince
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Elizabeth D Rather
1999-06-09 0:00 ` How many different processors do you use? muddy_buddy
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09 0:00 ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-10 0:00 ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1999-06-11 0:00 ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-11 0:00 ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-10 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-10 0:00 ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-10 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-10 0:00 ` rawcswi
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10 0:00 ` rawcswi
1999-06-20 0:00 ` Eric Roesinger
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Jon Kirwan
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Ed Avis
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Jon Kirwan
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Ada95 (was: How many different processors do you use?) Markus Kuhn
1999-06-09 0:00 ` How many different processors do you use? dennison
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-10 0:00 ` John Kodis
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-09 0:00 ` martin lytz
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-06-11 0:00 ` David Botton
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1999-06-11 0:00 ` fraser
1999-06-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Everett M. Greene
1999-06-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-11 0:00 ` Dave Hansen
1999-06-11 0:00 ` martin lytz
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Roger Espel Llima
1999-06-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-06-12 0:00 ` markh
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-13 0:00 ` markh
1999-06-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-25 0:00 ` Lew Pitcher
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Michael A. Covington [this message]
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-29 0:00 ` Michael A. Covington
1999-06-29 0:00 ` Richard Kettlewell
1999-06-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-07-08 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
1999-07-09 0:00 ` no-one
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Dan Nagle
1999-06-12 0:00 ` mjsilva
1999-06-14 0:00 ` Everett M. Greene
1999-06-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-26 0:00 ` Everett M. Greene
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Matt Cox
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