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Re: ZIP GSX 1.0.1 vs 1.0.2
Bill Buckels wrote:
"Henry S. Courbis" <apl2research(a.t.)comcast.net> wrote in message
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Costs on 100? Probably $6k. Feel like investing? ;-) And that's not even
counting the research costs. Add probably another $1000 on to that number
That's only $70 but by the time it gets to the production stage and retails
it probably would sell for much more. Would there be a market unless all the
used accelerators were dead? And would we all be dead as well as well as our
Apple II's?
In an industrial environment (meaning that you have to make a reasonable
profit after R&D, manufacturing, and marketing), multiply the raw cost
by pi and you'll come closer to a price. ;-)
Does Matt's suggestion that ZIP logic be implemented in CPLD make more
sense?
I think that the Zip architecture is quite clean and extensible to
higher clock speeds and larger caches.
BTW the external CF drive is a nice add-on. After I opened my case a time or
two I realized I'd best get one.
Or just leave the cover off--that's what "real developers" do! ;-)
You can always tell a "user" by the fact that the monitor is stacked
on top of the machine. ;-)
-michael
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