From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Marc Rochkind <mrochkind@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The Mark Williams Company and Coherent
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:42:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240315154200.GC324770@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOkr1zVjv2qfRkAjz7c_A6a-2rB=mDgMQU_xuNxNvnQG+V4PvA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 08:10:31AM -0600, Marc Rochkind wrote:
> I have already posted this in another thread (on non-BTL C compilers), but
> it's more relevant here. My 1985 review of Coherent for BYTE Magazine:
>
> https://www.mrochkind.com/mrochkind/docs/Byte-Pick-Coherent-Theos.pdf
It's interesting that it says that $495 for Coherent was a good deal.
(That's over $1700 in 2024 dollars.) On the other hand, in 1984, the
New York Times reported that IBM had "cut the price of the PC/XT" to
$2,520 for a machine with 256k RAM, a single disk drive, and a
monochrome display. (That's over $7400 in 2024 dollars.)
It's amazing how much hardware and software has gotten cheaper in the
past four decades!
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-15 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-15 3:45 [TUHS] " Marc Rochkind
2024-03-15 5:16 ` [TUHS] " Heinz Lycklama
2024-03-15 7:00 ` Rob Pike
2024-03-15 13:03 ` Dan Cross
2024-03-15 13:43 ` Dan Cross
2024-03-15 14:10 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-15 15:42 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2024-03-15 14:40 ` Paul Winalski
2024-03-15 21:23 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-03-15 22:27 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2024-03-15 22:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-15 23:00 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-15 23:16 ` Rich Salz
2024-03-16 5:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-18 12:27 ` Dan Cross
2024-03-18 14:12 ` Douglas McIlroy
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