??? 10/11/04 08:20 Read: times |
#79116 - RE: Optimistic? Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Ijaz Ahmed said:
How it is cheap? Didn't you think about the software overhead (time and efforts) to make it work? Prahlad Purohit said:
If he can finish with the required programming work within a couple of days or so it is really cheap. And the rest! He's also got to take your outline (excellent as it is) and turn it into a fully-detailed hardware design; he's got to build the hardware; he's got to test it all, etc, etc. It's certainly a whole lot more that just "a couple of days or so" of programming! A week is probably more like it. I don't know how a week (or even 2 days) of Ravi's time relates to the cost of 10 USB-Serial ports in his area, but it certainly wouldn't be economic for me! |