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Did those costs come from raw materials? Otherwise scaling up would have driven down those prices massively.
by closedloop129 4y ago
Did those costs come from raw materials? Otherwise scaling up would have driven down those prices massively.
- randomifcpfan 4y agoMoore’s Law and Dennard scaling were in full swing during that era. The thing about exponential growth is that most of the gains come at the end. The Alto cost $100K in 1973, the price for equivalent hardware halved every 18 months. That’s exactly what happened. By 1983 we had Mac for $1000 hardware cost / $2500 list price.