| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 26 May 2000 at 08:30:06 |
| Subject: | Re: Mil Spec was Re: More PS2 Madness |
On 24-May-00, Eddie Moore wrote:
> The trouble is that, in realilty, that's true B-( My little lad much
> prefers his B2000 to any of the more modern alternatives which his
> school has to offer, but he still can't get away from the fact that he
> *has* to use a PeeCee for at least some of his course work. His latest
> project, for example, involves an inter-schools robotics championship,
> and the software that is used is - you've guessed it -PeeCee only B-(
> *We* know that , in a lot of cases, there are alternatives to the
> Wintel monopoly, and those of us who are in a position to be able to
> do so, try to teach our children that fact, but "in a lot of cases"
> isn't really good enough to convince the powers-that-be to at least
> /look/ at the alternatives B-(
You can at least explain to him that real robots run on QNX.
(And lots of other OSes, but certainly not Windows or Amiga.)
Tell him to load up the QNX site at school and look at the Real Worlsd
stories.
Regards
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