🚀 go-pugleaf

jcbhrb@nic.cerf.net (Jacob Hirbawi) writes:

> Now let's say a
> T9000 costs $700 and 4MBytes of DRAM $100 and say $200 for other parts;
> (let's forget about development and manufacturing costs for now).
> You have 25 MFlops (or 200 Mips or anyway you look at it: a lot of
> power) *with built-in parallelism* for about $1000. The real cost is higher,
> but not by much. And you can stamp out as many copies as you need! .
> Now if you are a company and try to sell these things you have to cover
> advertising, payroll, insurance, and all that jazz and the price skyrockets.
> But for your own use you have a reasonably priced processing unit.

... build it, and they will buy ...

Give the computing enthusiasts
1) a board with a T9000 and provision for lots of RAM
2) hardware provisions for parallelism (more boards)
3) a clean, stable OS that isn't in your face every other microsecond
4) a language that can use these resources
5) basic plug-'n-play system <5000 US$
6) fairly readable docs in depth

The users will soon write a multitude of attractive PD applications.  Atari
claimed to be doing just that with T800s not long ago.  Wonder what happpened?
Anyway, I should thing fame and fortune would then be unavoidable.