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From: wsb@boise.Eng.Sun.COM (Walt Brainerd)
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Subject: Re: Price of DWB 3.1
Summary: Bad arithmetic
Message-ID: <3694@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 90 17:44:17 GMT
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In article <3691@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, wsb@boise.Eng.Sun.COM (Walt Brainerd) writes:
> that next year this company ships 50,000 workstations
> selling for $20,000 each (a little low for Sun and perhaps
> IBM).  They then owe royalties of 1% x $2B = $20M.  I

I was going to say 100,000 workstations
(but I didn't want to make the low-volume
folks look bad :) and forgot to change
1% x $2B = $20M to 1% x $1B = $10M.


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