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From: dbercel@toto.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel Microprocessors (fair benchmarking)
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Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 16:27:50 EDT
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Reply-To: dbercel@sun.UUCP (Danielle Bercel, MIS Systems Programming)
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In article <12990@clyde.ATT.COM> feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) writes:
>
>  .................................................... People-cost in
>  software is a far greater aggregate than any goodies made available
>  by technical smarts in the CPU, which breaks that software inventory.
>
>Forrest Gehrke

Indeed, I recall reading an IBM report that said for every penny ($0.01)
they spend on hardware R & D they had to spend 100M ($100,000,000.00) in
software R & D.

danielle