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joshua d boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 10 16:34:28 CDT 2001


On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:50:35PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> > although if anyone wants to take a stab at an FPGA i wouldn't
> > complain. :)
> 
> If the card they come up with is cheap but don't suck like the Promise
> FastTraks do I think they'll make a fortune just from the geeks buying the
> things.

So, a Fasttrack is what, $150?  And an FPGA in volume is?  Of course, if
you get funding, small runs of chips would also be possible, greatly
lowering price.  And, it would be kinda cool (but not as nice as a
hardware hotswappable IDE to SCSI raid setup).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd
http://www.cs.millersville.edu/~jdboyd/



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