Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:31:02 PDT, Aron Nimzovitch said:

> RAM with a marginal power supply.  Delay line storage has been around
> for a long time, if it was useful, it would be commerical.

Which is why the pharmeceutical companies got special tax breaks for
developing "orphan drugs" that treat diseases that only a handful of
people get, to keep the cost of R&D down so the people could AFFORD
the drugs, right?

For it to be commercial, it needs to be both useful *and* have a sufficiently
large target audience to support a business.  If your fixed costs are $1M,
and the marginal costs are $20/item, the economics work out a LOT differently
for 100K customers and for 100 customers. (Do the math yourself if you don't
believe me...)

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