15 Mar
2024
15 Mar
'24
9:42 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 08:10:31AM -0600, Marc Rochkind wrote:
I have already posted this in another thread (on
non-BTL C compilers), but
it's more relevant here. My 1985 review of Coherent for BYTE Magazine:
https://www.mrochkind.com/mrochkind/docs/Byte-Pick-Coherent-Theos.pdf
It's interesting that it says that $495 for Coherent was a good deal.
(That's over $1700 in 2024 dollars.) On the other hand, in 1984, the
New York Times reported that IBM had "cut the price of the PC/XT" to
$2,520 for a machine with 256k RAM, a single disk drive, and a
monochrome display. (That's over $7400 in 2024 dollars.)
It's amazing how much hardware and software has gotten cheaper in the
past four decades!
- Ted