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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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Subject: Re: Postscript: How to produce it
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Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 23:56:10 EDT
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In article <3886@osu-eddie.UUCP> paul%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP (Paul Placeway) writes:
>I still claim that such a pricing structure is absurd.  The other
>example that I have is that SoftQuad wants a different ammount of
>money (less) for a Vax 750 than they do for an 8600 (or for that
>matter, a 780).  Ditto for various flavors of Sun 3.

This is known as "charging what the market will bear", and it is
quite common, especially among mainframes -- but even micros have
different prices for what is essentially the same software
package for different machines.  To some degree such a policy
makes sense, when you consider that hundreds of people may use
the product on a large system instead of just one on a small system.