[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > In case you're wondering why they did this, it was cheaper for them to have > one manufacturing line for the cards and it also allowed them to make either > version of the card on demand.
In the mid-1970s Aetna Life and Casualty (at that time the largest commercial user of IBM in the free world) decided to upgrade an IBM mainframe. The upgrade cost something like 1.5 million dollars, which was a lot of money back in those days. IBM came in to do the upgrade, which we expected to take DAYS with RACKS of equipment. The rep reached into his case, pulled out a floppy disk (8" back in those days) and stuck it into the CPU. Ten minutes later we had our upgrade. As the brain surgeon said, "You are not paying for the ten minutes in the operating room, you are paying for the twenty years of study where to gouge." md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
