cloud computing (and python)?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.48.1199303911.896.python-list at python.org>,
Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>
>2. yes, cost.  University mainframes cost $s/minute.  I remember
>blowing about $200 due to a misplaced comma or something in a
>statistical analysis setup.  So it was cost-effective (and rather
>liberating) to spend $10000 on a desktop Unix system for both
>statistics and text work.

Same here, only it was not remembering that the filesystem disallowed
names starting with digits.
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