At 03:51 PM 2/4/09 -0500, Wirt Atmar wrote:

>The Series 33 report ran in 22 minutes in 1985. The machine cost $165,000 in
>1978 dollars, which I'll now estimate to be equivalent to about $500,000.
>
>The Dell Linux box cost less than $500 a few months ago.
>
>The same report now runs in 3.1 seconds. That's a 412,000-to-1 improvement
>in price-performance over our original HP3000. Perhaps more importantly,
>that's more performance than we could get out of the largest and most
>modern HP3000, regardless of price.

If only more industries would follow ours in producing such walloping 
improvements while lowering costs, we wouldn't be in as bad a recession as 
we are.  The technology is there, but not the desire or competition.  It's 
one of the things I'm most proud of, that my industry leads all in 
productivity gains, while at the same time REDUCING TCO.

John Lee

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