I remember those days (charge by runtime). We blew the civil engineering department’s annual computer budget on one poorly conceived analysis run. Ooops. ~Jim
Sent from Jim's iPhone Please excuse brevity, typos and errors > On Jan 21, 2025, at 9:02 AM, harrison--- via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > In the old days of punch cards, the universities would charge > for the number of seconds it took for your computer program > to run! When many people finally had their own personal computers > that whole idea went out the window. > > Just my 2 cents. ;-) > > Rick > >> On Jan 21, 2025, at 11:04 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Just by way of reason, no business model would charge by the minute for >> uptime. >> >> Bob S > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
