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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Postscript: How to produce it
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 00:51:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  5 00:51:09 1987
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>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.
>
>I have seen worse pricing schemes, but this comes close.
>-=-
>	     -- Paul Placeway

Well I suppose the reason for this to happen is that on a $150,000 computer
a $5000 software package is a reasonable percentage of the purchase price, 
but on a $15,000 computer, $5000 is a lot.
-- 
Richard Sexton
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