Subject: RE: NuVAX revisited
To: 'Matt London' <matt@knm.yi.org>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/26/2001 17:19:53
This is ringing a bell, I believe it's "Heath Kit", or something
like that? Assemble your own computer? Well, except we're doing it from the
very beginning...
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! -----Original Message-----
! From: Matt London [mailto:matt@knm.yi.org]
! Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 5:16 PM
! To: David Woyciesjes
! Cc: 'Lord Isildur'; Chuck McManis; port-vax@netbsd.org
! Subject: RE: NuVAX revisited
!
!
! On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, David Woyciesjes wrote:
!
! > But we should be careful anyway, though. If they see
! this, and think
! > it could generate enough cash for them, they just might
! whack us. But I
! > think we would be safe if we call it an emulator, because
! it won't be a Vax,
! > per se, as they were originally built, right?
!
! Yes. I don't see that there'd be money to be had - it's hardly as if
! there's a market there for them, other than us VAXen geeks,
! and we're not
! gonna pay through the nose if they decided to do it anyway.
!
! Personally, I don't see why the Q wouldn't let us do it, but
! then again,
! this is the Q we're dealing with.
!
! I can just see it now tho - a box based on one of these chips, a baby
! drive, a bit of RAM, serial and ethernet - and to be able to say you
! helped build it from a semiconductor level up. How cool would
! that be :&)
!
! --Matt
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