🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <36169267.1FD7254@chios.org.uk>, ChiOS development
<chios@chios.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Porter wrote:
> > 
> > In article <na.1328a7488f.a70120kvap.spence@argonet.co.uk>,
> >  Mr K R Spence <kvap.spence@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Is the idea to sell PCs with the SA and RISC OS chicps on the PCi
> vard
> > > inside or to buy your own PC and plug it in afterwards?
> > 
> > Does anyone have details of this .. I've read the articles in
> AcornArcade?
> > 
> > Will there be a way to.. trick the bios of the PC or something to
> trip the
> > card into running instead of Window95 or whatever?
> 
> In theory, yes, as you can already do this with other OSses such as
> Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and even MSDOS. Adding another one wouldn't
> be
> too difficult (I hope!)

Sorry about the nested quotes.

I missed the original posting about all this, so am a bit in the dark. 
However, it all sounds too good to be true, and as Rosemary often (but
randomly?) reminds us, it probably is.

Please reassure me that it isn't, Jason and others who know what they're
talking about.  Things like projected development time as well as cost come
immediately to mind.  Cost (perhaps I should write price) must be a function
of the expected (not potential) sales.  And then, how would you estimate
these other than by guessing?

It would be really nice to know (hope, expect) that in a couple of years I
could add such a wonder card to my very recently purchased cheap but
allegedly quite powerful PC.  I hastily add it's not for me, but a present
for someone who is forced to go that way.  My apprenticeship with W98
-trying to install it and the various drivers- has been so appalling that
it's turned me totally off MS stuff for ever.

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