Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

[David Ogg <davidogg@nc.rr.com>]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.10107310846440.25833-100000
@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk>, ac@sys.uea.ac.uk says...
> 
> 
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, David Ogg wrote:
> 
> > In article <Pine.HPX.4.33.0107302242410.8552-100000@ux1>, 
> > mhughes@students.depaul.edu says...
> > > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, David Ogg wrote:
> 
> > > That is a pretty strong guarantee. could you make the other OS 'geos'? And
> > > no that is _not_ a typo. or hey let's call dell and see if they will
> > > preload QNX?
> > 
> > "I guarantee I can find it somewhere else" Just like I said.
> 
> And where, pray tell, would you get, for example, a Dell Precision
> (complete with cool case, quirky motherboard arrangement and proprietary
> power supply) preloaded with QNX?
> 
> Or did you mean "I can find something a bit like it somewhere else"?

I mean verbatim what I said. Name your specs and I'll find you a PC.
 you want QNX? NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NT, Windows (MS), Solaris,
SCO Unix or Unixware?

If the OS is available, it's available on a new PC.

<disclaimer> (and this isn't a cop-out)
This does not include asking for hardware and OS combinations where the 
OS doesn't support the hardware you asked for, then claiming I lose 
because said hardware won't work, ie: asking for AmigaOS for the Vic-20.
</disclaimer>

<good faith>
I won't just say it's available, I will point you to where you really 
can purchase the machine, and actually get a quote for the machine, with 
your OS of choice installed, at a very competative price. If you need me 
to show you the actual quote to prove it, then so be it.
</good faith>