On Apr 28, 2007, at 20:46, Ben Scott wrote:

While the reason for the 75% price increase isn't fully
explained yet, the popular conspiracy theory is that Windows needed
more computrons.

There was talk a while back about OLPC being able to shed the shackles of traditional PC design and get much more efficient by not having to worry about running MS-DOS and its ilk. It was reported that the OLPC was doing new, innovative things that might make it into PC's one day.

Maybe the Gates Foundation is going to buy a container ship of them for Africa.

-Bill

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