Resurrect V/AT?

John Plocher plocher%sally at Sun.COM
Mon Apr 17 14:26:24 AEST 1989


In article <197 at carpet.WLK.COM> bill at ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes:
>>		$ 10,000	Production and shipping costs (low)
>$30 a whack for diskettes?  Maybe so if it was something other than just
>diskettes.

I was assuming Docs, but then I forgot to factor them in to the license costs:

		$ 20,000	Documentation Reproduction License
				$10~$50 per copy for royalty

>then how was Microport surviving at $199 for (retail) V/AT 

Well, as Chuck once said "We'll make it up in volume" :-)

>Bill Kennedy

	-John Plocher



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