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From: valentin@btr.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea  valentin@btr.com)
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Subject: Re: 68040 Compatibility Warning
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Date: 5 Jun 91 10:05:03 GMT
References: <22049@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Jun1.175626.3234@wintermute.north.de> <1991Jun4.111333.31246@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1991Jun4.171550.27854@world.std.com>
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In article <1991Jun4.171550.27854@world.std.com> awm@world.std.com (Andrew
W MacDonald) writes:
>
>A company I work for recently bought an 040 board from Motorola, and
>we discovered that they didn't put the floating point support code in
>their own ROMs.  When we called them to get some help, they said they
>would sell us the library for $5000!  Needless to say, we wrote the
>library ourselves.

Last time I talked to a Motorola rep, the $5000 included source code and an
unlimited distribution license. Needless to say, that's pretty cheap. Take
an employee at $60K, let him work for one month, and you've already spent more
than that.

Valentin
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