They misunderstood the PC. They thought it was just a toy and ignored it. On Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 7:09 PM Björn Helgason <gos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When i was a product manager there I was told that when we wanted to sell > something the selling price should deliver at least 10 times more than > cost. > > Less than that they were not interested. > > We are not in the fingers and toes business I was told. > > That was 30 years ago. > > They have been going downhill ever since I left. > > Þann mán., 12. apr. 2021, 18:25 'Rodney Nicholson' via Chat skrifaði < > c...@jsoftware.com>: > > > “ 13 layers of managers.” > > > > The explanation of their survival is, I believe, their huge profit > > margins. > > > > I still recall when they got a contract to electronically handle the > > Toronto Stock Exchange trading system where they charged $18 per > > transaction. Their cost of course was just a few electrons per > transaction. > > > > They were in effect a monopoly at the time. And monopolies always waste > > huge quantities of resources, accordingly reducing everone’s living > > standards. > > > > Rodney. > > > > > > > On Apr 12, 2021, at 10:15 AM, Björn Helgason <gos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > apl lives on even if ibm goes away. > > > > > > it is really amazing that ibm is still around. > > > > > > 13 layers of managers. > > > > > > Þann mán., 12. apr. 2021, 13:51 Raul Miller skrifaði < > > rauldmil...@gmail.com > > >> : > > > > > >> That's disappointing. > > >> > > >> Not surprising -- just disappointing. > > >> > > >> Still, there's J, there's Dyalog APL, there's GNU APL, and there's k > > and q. > > >> > > >> Not to mention various hardware array concepts, such as greenarrays > and > > >> gpus. > > >> > > >> And, maybe, IBM will go back up at some point? > > >> > > >> Who knows... > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Raul > > >> > > >>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 5:05 AM Björn Helgason <gos...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >>> > > >>> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apl2-whats-new > > >>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>> For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
