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- From: djhoward@students.uiuc.edu (howard daniel joseph)
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- Subject: Re: Msg from Carl Sassenrath (VISCorp)
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 03:37:25 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Byron Montgomerie (bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
-
- : Perhaps it makes business sense for VIScorp but I for one am not interested
- : in a set top box and won't be for some years until the industry gets their
- : act together. If the whole world went the set top box way I still would
- : want a computer. From what I understand a set top box is just a fancy
- : terminal to be connected to a mainframe in any case and I don't approve of
- : that kind of setup.
-
- Well, don't forget they'll need a source of revenue to fund
- development ... and $40 million is not quite what one would call a "drop
- in the bucket" ... nosiree, if I was them, I'd be milking the Amiga for
- every penny I could get ... we're talking big-time business here!
-
- : Strange, I would expect the system software to become more hardware
- : dependent and hacked together to suit short term goals. The hardware I
- : would expect to become more proprietary and non standard.
-
- 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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