From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 12:45:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA08646 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:45:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA08619 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:44:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-082.etinc.com (ppp-082.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA17359; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:42:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:42:35 -0500 Message-Id: <199601312042.PAA17359@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Joe Greco From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> >> Doesnt matter...dont make enough on it to really care, even at 195. But i >> >> find it >> >> interesting that someone would be willing to spend the time to build one if >> >> they only needed a handful. You've already spent more on time thinking about >> >> it then you'll save! >> > >> >At $169, to purchase a dozen would cost me $2028. Unlike you, I am not >> >operating a revenue-generating organization, and $2028 is an appreciable >> >chunk of one of my paychecks, which is ultimately where the money would >> >come from. >> >> Ok...Ok...all I was saying was that if you build it yourself it will cost >> $50. and you cant design and manufacture 10 cards for the difference. > >If I build them myself and build 12, it costs me $600 - I count a $1428 >difference. That's significant financial savings. of course you cant build 12 for $50. each with tooling and prototypes..but even if you could... You must not pay yourself much...thats not much of my time. db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX