On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:31:02 PDT, Aron Nimzovitch said: > RAM with a marginal power supply. Delay line storage has been around > for a long time, if it was useful, it would be commerical.
Which is why the pharmeceutical companies got special tax breaks for developing "orphan drugs" that treat diseases that only a handful of people get, to keep the cost of R&D down so the people could AFFORD the drugs, right? For it to be commercial, it needs to be both useful *and* have a sufficiently large target audience to support a business. If your fixed costs are $1M, and the marginal costs are $20/item, the economics work out a LOT differently for 100K customers and for 100 customers. (Do the math yourself if you don't believe me...)
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