Re: IBM getting rid of RPG

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Andy Nolen-Parkhouse <aparkhouse@mediaone.net>

> I haven't done the math, but I believe that if you were to plot the cost
> of interactive CPW from the B10 series through the 8xx series, you would
> find that the cost per interactive CPW is declining.  I'm not aware of
> any technical reasons for the pricing of interactive feature codes.  It
> is just a way of charging about the same (or slightly less) for a BPCS
> green screen user as you did ten years ago.

that may be so, but on all other platforms the cost of computing 
(e.g. per MIPS, per transaction, etc) has decreased by a factor
of about 50 (Moore's law more or less).

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