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From: dlr@daver.UUCP (Dave Rand)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Designing for the FHF
Keywords: schematics, repair information, free software foundation,
Message-ID: <14872@daver.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 89 03:58:04 GMT
References: <10078@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
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In article <10078@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> woolstar@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (John D Woolverton) writes:
>
>What people want now is pretty clear, a design for a public domain
>computer system in comp.sys.ns32k went along for a while, until more
>ideas kept coming up, with no one willing to do the work.

Perhaps some people were not willing to do the work. We (george@wombat
and dlr@daver) certainly are willing. And doing. First WW is done.

The problem, as I see it, is that people want the design for free (not
really a problem), plus the software free (more of a problem), plus
the hardware for free. Sigh. It really does cost serious money to do
your own system.

Witness the PD-32. A short lived attempt to get Unix to the masses for
<$1000. It was still too much.

-- 
Dave Rand
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