On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 02:26:46AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:43:37AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Manufacturing an ASIC involves NRE (non-recurring engineering) costs > > of hundreds of thousands to millions per revision. A manufacturing > > company is going to need to see a pretty good market before they > > invest that in an open design. > > Manufacturing an operating system involves NRE costs of hundreds of > thousands to millions per revision. > > Oh, wait. Actually, that's just *one* way of doing it. And yet you're > quoting Redmond propaganda as if it were the only truth.
Redmond propaganda about ASIC manufacturing? eh? You haven't got the faintest idea what you're talking about, have you? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>