-4 years old, and living in the USSR. I don't agree that VC++ is
necessarily seven decimal places cheaper, since not all of the files in
VC++ are part of the program, or even made by microsoft. I would say
that the total amount of code written just for VC++ 5.0 and on the CD is
more like 25 MB.
>Max, how old were you in 1978? :-) Let's see, $150 in 1978 would be
>at least $500 in today's dollars, maybe 12 cents a hand-crafted byte.
>Today's Visual C 5.0 is about 131 megs installed at about $500, or
>about seven decimal places in the less expensive direction.
But many more people would still buy it. Plus, organizations that didn't
want to pirate stuff but wanted to use BASIC.
>
>Pish-posh. In 1978, we're talking about a bunch of scroungy ex-
>or current- ham radio operators who'd cross the street to pick up
>two pennies on the sidewalk.
I am not generally aware of the software in those bins, and am
consistently surprised by things that used to cost about $70 only a
couple of years ago. But, CompUSA reeks, and so does the discount bin :)
>Even today, why do people routinely pirate software that can be had
>for $20 in the CompUSA discount bin?
>
>- John
>
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