[geeks] DaveM: Crays up?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:55:12AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > I can't say for sure about HD, but SGI and Sun both want $obscene_bignum
> > for their fortran compilers.  And GNU is only Fortran 77.
> 
> $700 isn't really obscene when you consider that Microsoft gets $1079
> for C++, C#, and VB.  Or, you can pay $99 for a C++ compiler that
> doesn't do any optimizations.

Who is $700?  That's not what I saw.

Not that I have $700 either.  If I did, it would go towards either a
nice Octane (or perhaps the cheapest Octane I can get so that the rest
can be put towards at least a C compiler) or a nice G4.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd