Re: Peter still in misery (was: Jan doesn't want Peter to know (was: Peter wants

"Vic Cross" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.advocacy
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--- In [email protected], "commanonce" <philp@i...> wrote:
> At one point they paid $10 million for six sides of paper - the 
> contents of which they already knew.

Shows either IBM's unmitigated gall in asking for the money, or 
Amdahl's stupidity in paying it.

> I find this extremely hard to reconcile with the repeated 
> assertion that Hercules is based entirely on information in the 
> public domain.

See point above: just because one is silly enough to pay money for 
information one already knows, does not prove the information was 
worth what was paid.  To either party.  Perhaps Amdahl simply woke 
up to what was going on when it came to zArch, and called IBM's 
bluff.

Cheers,
Vic Cross



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