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Article #507economics meets technology: was SSI
From: Eugene N. Miya
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:37
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:37
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More than one poster noted:
>a machine on the floor
I have always wondered where the thresholds of success are.
More than one company actually delivered 1-2 machines in the field.
A few companies made tens of deliveries, and even Alliant delivered
500 machines or so during its time. Some still living vendors have yet to
break 100 machines while others have over 1000 delivered.
It is perhaps our perspective of time since it might be that all these
businesses fail in the long run (century or more even).
--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!ames!data.nas.nasa.gov!wilbur.nas.nasa.gov!eugene From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Subject: economics meets technology: was SSI References: <1juv3oINN8vm@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> <605@cfdd40.boeing.com> <C1Kswu.FC2@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator) Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 18:37:04 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan28.183704.24937@nas.nasa.gov> Lines: 17