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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion
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To: TEDennis who wrote (7153)10/27/1997 10:10:00 AM
From: Hoatzin  Read Replies (2) of 13949
 
TED/tom, a Bemer quickie for you:
The Briefing article states the pricing to be "around $0.15 cents (sic) per line of object code."

Now, it's been a while, but my recollection is that object modules don't have "lines", they are just files with variable length records. Looking at or counting "records" or "lines" in an object module has no meaning. They have "size", and a particular instruction is at an offset or displacement within the file, but you can't assign a line number. I suppose one could charge by the K-byte of object size, but by the line?

What say you? There are several places in this article where I know the writer doesn't know what he is talking about. Is this another one?

Kevin
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