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From: ken@nrtt.demon.co.uk (Ken Tindell)
Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry
Date: 1996/11/22
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Date: 1996-11-22T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <571qub$l1n@mill.gdls.com>
schwarza@gdls.com (Art Schwarz) wrote:

> [8] A penny saved should be banked. The attention of 'penny pinching' by
>     purchasing and using minimal architecture computers forces development
>     to proceed into extraordinary pot-holes.

I can't speak for GM, but this point is very unfair. When they pinch a penny
using a minimal architecture computer they end up pinching millions of
pennies. That pays for a lot of development time. Time enough to climb out
of quite a few pot-holes.