Francois Thunus wrote in a message to Coridon Henshaw:

 MB>> Well, I've placed my order for the upgrade to Watcom C/C++ 10.5.

 CH> What extras does 10.5 have over 10.0?

 FT> 0.5 ?
 FT> sorry, couldn't resist :-)

I got myself flamed for weeks on the OS2 echo because of a similar joke
posting. The upgrades from OS/2 2.10 to 2.11 and from MS-DOS 6.0 to 6.2
both came out around the same time, so I argued as follows:

   6.2 - 6.0 = 0.2,        $10 / 0.2 = $50

   2.11 - 2.10 = 0.01,     $35 / 0.01 = $3500

Therefore, IBM was charging 70 times more than Microsoft per version increment!

The new Watcom C lands squarely in the middle:

   10.5 - 10.0 = 0.5,     $129 / 0.5 = $258

Of course, new Watcom C purchasers get a much better deal:

   10.5 - 0.0 = 10.5,     $199 / 10.5 = $18.95
 
-- Mike


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