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From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To: John Oram <norami@unlimited.net>
Subject: Re: My wallet was just stolen
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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).

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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>
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