Cheap now! Back when ROI Systems was originally designed a 96MB drive was $96,000 and the platters were exposed to air and instead of voice coils for the head movement they used 1 horsepower linear motors! If your fingers got in the way it was time to go to the hospital to have them reattached and that is not a joke.
That was the issue. Now the issue is 'don't change what's not broken'. This system has hundreds of menus and I lost count of how many programs but it's like 100 megs of source or so. So the man hours to change all the programs and dicts and running conversions on files and fields to throw in a decimal will never be expended and ergo the issue that was once an issue and is no longer an issue is now supplanted with dcwnb! Decimals would be a much easier to program with - no doubt about it! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shawn Waldie Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 13:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [U2] Precision question... Since storage space is relatively cheap these days, what's the advantage of storing numbers without decimal points? Or is that not even the issue? (snip) ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
