Hardware generators was: your mail
Pat Farrell
pfarrell at netcom.com
Sun Jun 19 07:10:53 PDT 1994
In message Sat, 18 Jun 94 19:30:35 EDT,
Adam Shostack <adam at bwh.harvard.edu> writes:
> Making it PC only shuts out the Mac/UNIX market for your
> devices. There are probably lots of folks in the research/scientific
> community who use UNIX & would buy a random number dongle that hangs
> off the serial port. For $25, I'd probably get our lab to buy 3 or 4.
>
> If you put it on a PC card, you're cutting out all other
> computers from using it.
Adam's points are correct, and I thought of them before I posted the
initial message.
My thinking was that about 90% of all computers sold are Intel PCs, and
to get my manufacturing costs down, I need volume and simplicity.
So by addressing the 90% solution first, I have a larger market without
the complexity of multiple platforms.
Once I've sold thousands of Hardware random number generators, then I can
afford the design effort for other platforms, if they still exist then :-)
Pat
Pat Farrell Grad Student pfarrell at cs.gmu.edu
Department of Computer Science George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
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