Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:48:28 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: John Oram <norami@unlimited.net> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Subject: Re: My wallet was just stolen Message-ID: <XFMail.990228144828.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <36D93EBC.2CBAC556@unlimited.net>
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On 28-Feb-99 John Oram wrote: > Jeroen: > > check out > <http://www.vci.com/news_events/pressroom/press_releases/9806/msft_nt.html For side news: The MS NT job page lists calls for Software developers who are going to work on Embedded NT. How do ye mean a very beta product? > I think these folks got $9M USD of venture funding to prove that 12 MB > of "Embedded NT" won't fit on a 1.44MB 3.5" floppy like the QNX demo > does :-) If companies really consider using Embedded NT for Embedded things then they're nuts. The biggest con is the memory footprint as we all know by now. > I hope my next project gets that level of funding for my ideas. Possibly > I am missing the idea of venture funding? IMO it appears some VC folks > are willing to pay big bucks if your going to prove the obvious instead > of funding a project if your looking for a functional solution. True, marketing, marketing, marketing... That's why I'm glad we have picoBSD to use and work upon (as soon as my programming skills improve). --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven http://www.freebsdzine.org>; asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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