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- > Low cost is attainable with a flexable OS on off-the-shelf parts
- > that can be cobbled together quickly. The more robust of an OS there is,
- > the less "hacking" you need to get your complex software, like a
- > web-browser, up and running quickly ...
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- Low cost does not mean off the shelf parts etc.. A goal of any technology
- company is to provide the best product for the money. A proprietary system
- of custom chips with a tightly integrated OS would require less resources
- on the motherboard than off the shelf components, hence a lower pricepoint
- per unit among other things. If this was not so then VisCorp has no reason
- to buy AT, the Mac Pippin and the Oracle system would have not followed the
- same route.
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- Keep the faith
- Julio C Arroyo
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