From the user's point of view, it behaved like a FORTRAN interpreter.
When you had to hand your punch cards to someone behind a counter and wait several hours (if you were lucky) for your printout, it sure didn't seem like an interpreter.
It is absolutely necessary to be able to read and write in their closed format. Other packages can, at best, do this with basic spreadsheets, WP docs etc. but you try sticking formulae or "pivot tables" in there and doing the same.
Agreed. The settlement/ruling should mandate that the file formats of Word, Excel, etc. should be opened up to the world.
Windows '98 is probably close to a loss leader. At the very least it doesn't have the same margin as their application packages like Office.
I don't think it's a loss leader. If it is bundled with 80-90% (a guess) of the PCs sold, they're raking in quite a lot of money. Add to that the cost of upgrades, and they get more moola.
But if you visit amazon and browse through books with his name on them, it seems that he hasn't done this himself. I'd respect his wishes here a bit more if he'd at least follow through on his own requests.
How do you know he hasn't? Did you ever think he did follow through and Spamazon removed his comments? The same thing happened when some book authors where doing this to complain about Spamazon's spamming.
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Uff Da! You should have asked for the student discount! I sent a personal letter to Philippe Kahn (well, he probably never read it) and only had to pay $69.;)
I remember shelling out only $40 at the university bookstore. This was a version for the DEC Rainbow. (Just thinking about those crappy machines takes away my will to live.)
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When you had to hand your punch cards to someone behind a counter and wait several hours (if you were lucky) for your printout, it sure didn't seem like an interpreter.
Agreed. The settlement/ruling should mandate that the file formats of Word, Excel, etc. should be opened up to the world.
I don't think it's a loss leader. If it is bundled with 80-90% (a guess) of the PCs sold, they're raking in quite a lot of money. Add to that the cost of upgrades, and they get more moola.
It was Franklin Roosevelt's health we didn't know about.
Alpha = nitrous burning funny car engine! :)
That should be nitro burning. Nitro is short for nitromethane. (That's the anal-retentive ex-chemist in me.)
My saturns rpm-ometer goes up to 9,000 RPMs... My friends mustang goes to i think 7. Mine needs 3700 RPM's to get to 85, while the mustang needs 1900.
This ignores gear ratios, so is not totally valid.
But if you visit amazon and browse through books with his name on them, it seems that he hasn't done this himself. I'd respect his wishes here a bit more if he'd at least follow through on his own requests.
How do you know he hasn't? Did you ever think he did follow through and Spamazon removed his comments? The same thing happened when some book authors where doing this to complain about Spamazon's spamming.
Uff Da! You should have asked for the student discount! I sent a personal letter to Philippe Kahn (well, he probably never read it) and only had to pay $69. ;)
I remember shelling out only $40 at the university bookstore. This was a version for the DEC Rainbow. (Just thinking about those crappy machines takes away my will to live.)
What assembly language would this refer to? x86? IBM360? PDP-11? 6502? Just saying assembler is vague.
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