[Info-vax] New VSI Roadmap (yipee!)

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <md2t3r$kpk$2 at dont-email.me>,
	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> David Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
>>>>> I can't imagine ever using floating point in a new money handling
>>>>> application these days given all the other options available.
>>>> It was *never* acceptable!
>>>>
>>> Even when there was no other options?
>> 
>> There have always been other options.
>> 
>> This is one of the things we learned in my first Fortran class...
>> --scott
>> 
> 
> Ok, in 1974, what were the affordable options.  For small companies, a 
> multi-million dollar IBM system was not feasible.  A quarter million 
> dollar PDP-11 system was one of the better options.

Paper ledgers and pencils.  And that was what was used until places like
Radio Shack came out with $2000 computers with canned business apps
available.

Next level up was when IBM came out with things like the System 34,
System 36 and eventually AS400.

believe it or not, there was a time when everybody didn't use computers.
And, surprisingly, business did just fine.

bill
 

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