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4 Sep 2024 15:23:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The computer project  
From: Darren New
Date: 11 Jun 2010 13:19:53
Message: <4c127039@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> And how many people in the entire world need to work on this software? 
> 3? 17? 25?

Qualcomm alone has several thousand people who do this sort of job, and 
that's just in one city in one company.

> Given the vast profusion of extremely low-cost off-the-shelf 
> microcontrollers in existence, this seems highly implausible.

But it's even cheaper to set up your own chip with an ARM core and whatever 
other custom logic you need.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.


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