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From: "Michael A. Covington" <covington@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: How many different processors do you use?
Date: 1999/06/28
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| > 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.