[sdiy] Secrets [Was: Discrete OTA]

[John Slee]

On 13 April 2014 03:58, Paul Maddox <yo at vacoloco.net> wrote:
> lets look at the cost of a compiler, a good one can be £2000 per seat.
> So say you have two developers, there's £4K.
> Next you'll need a couple of development platforms, say £1K a piece.

I'd read Neil's email as talking about tooling cost only, since the human time
cost (whether it is paid for or not) is obvious. We are lucky now to
have a mostly
free toolchain for pretty much all useful CPU architectures. That's an amazing
achievement, I think

John