Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.albasani.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.150 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.70; '*S*': 0.01; 'mrab': 0.05; 'represents': 0.05; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'googling': 0.16; 'models,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'bit': 0.19; 'seems': 0.21; 'saying': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'least': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; '(which': 0.31; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'sep': 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; "can't": 0.35; 'knows': 0.35; 'no,': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'ram': 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; 'two': 0.37; 'pm,': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'enough': 0.39; 'called': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'read': 0.60; 'tell': 0.60; 'back': 0.62; 'information': 0.63; 'between': 0.67; 'price': 0.69; 'fact,': 0.69; 'apart': 0.72; 'end-user': 0.84; 'presumably': 0.84; 'presumption': 0.84; 'ram,': 0.84; 'to:none': 0.92; 'differences': 0.93 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fW6sk+FPKmNeRcfCPkd/se39J7gWt/6ZlCri6HVBm/Y=; b=V61qps+ks7tPOKfkiLPs6UfszTFWlRyCmzy7jKHggMd2BFNQxE1838xdnpBKdQNZ8D z8aamziCiVFhaGdhifhK/kfzk424MQT8QgWnN9HV6X/h/hzHEjQfgHGbJNvA8nqEQ+Rk C2/cA9+QJ8xHcEOxq8lA8/ORLPH/Hkprq56UpvPmFsmj8ewnYZsmArW3WTIlOZrIHEPC 02l8ztdJYHuV3yles4R50IPrcvD1QPy4hMGwj4stestydWALR3YfGzUGmrl/Gs8CUg7Y y0QvVwl1NYSb/90tQcYlY74q7HhXQ+Tt4syg+8v9LnoBeP0lt2HSG38Xci1tWQ5vJRPL D8/g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.20.169 with SMTP id o9mr25368810ige.14.1411875348693; Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:35:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <542776aa$0$13001$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> References: <542760e9$0$13012$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <542776aa$0$13001$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 13:35:48 +1000 Subject: Re: Storage Cost Calculation From: Chris Angelico Cc: "python-list@python.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1411875351 news.xs4all.nl 2845 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:39097 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:78430 On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> The RAM was presumably the only difference between the two models, so >> as long as Model A cost at least =C2=A3100 (which seems likely; a bit of >> quick Googling suggests that it may have been of the order of =C2=A3400)= , a >> =C2=A3100 difference can plausibly be called the price of the RAM. > > Hah! I read MRAB as saying the *RAM* came in two models, "Model A RAM" > and "Model B RAM". I wondered why they didn't just say "16K" versus "32K"= , > but it was the 1980s, who knows why people did anything back then... > > But no, you can't put the =C2=A3100 difference down to the price of the R= AM even > if RAM were the only difference between the two model Micros. There's not > enough information to tell how much of that =C2=A3100 represents the cost= of > RAM, and how much is pure profit on the part of the vendor, Acorn. In fac= t, > there were considerable differences apart from RAM: I don't care about "pure profit on the part of the vendor" - that's part of the end-user cost of RAM. But if my presumption is incorrect, there's no way to put a price on just the RAM. ChrisA