In message Sat, 18 Jun 94 19:30:35 EDT, Adam Shostack <adam@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@cs.gmu.edu Department of Computer Science George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Public key availble via finger #include <standard.disclaimer>