From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:146::1]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D5BF2427F for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:42:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C8E4314D; Sat, 16 Mar 2024 01:42:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu [18.9.28.11]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6FAAF4314D for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2024 01:42:05 +1000 (AEST) Received: from cwcc.thunk.org (pool-173-48-116-252.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [173.48.116.252]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.14.7/8.12.4) with ESMTP id 42FFg0YY020338 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:42:01 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mit.edu; s=outgoing; t=1710517322; bh=cNJCUoaeArhoPKTYidHaWWPMDKJrJDlatTxVf13M5yE=; h=Date:From:Subject:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=ejUbq2NqEfcKefIUTzKvBi1oY5mmQQQnwYIUydLHz9SayNX9AO27feSY/od4K1eGm asK30N2MiiuO0PWyGuyoTi5UwghqtoSB/yYDpLV6cbsACl5xHwfQ8NEWbCd0CxFkqS Ca3YWYXcQe/K+XCbAwcOOxOlH4RHhD9YbNoDJUd3yWXPdeDCx/v2gKm3on1FZE0PA2 q/DxNrSDDoDECRN5q5w6oA63WmBy/NkOJjZLf7gPHvkMuMQuDw1bzZcqRER95p65vl VlMH+i00bbDlLV3eA4GtwrRiuKO18JNiUCbv+fPV5+Ao/pJp/qOZI5SJTK3BvVXqlc 4oJzFKe2aOtig== Received: by cwcc.thunk.org (Postfix, from userid 15806) id 3FC8215C0C93; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:42:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:42:00 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Marc Rochkind Message-ID: <20240315154200.GC324770@mit.edu> References: <4999eb0b-e0e5-4a79-b14f-77d17995f454@osta.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Message-ID-Hash: UA46ZS3PNL4EYZEDSVQ6LTQ5OQBFDVS4 X-Message-ID-Hash: UA46ZS3PNL4EYZEDSVQ6LTQ5OQBFDVS4 X-MailFrom: tytso@mit.edu X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: The Mark Williams Company and Coherent List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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