Re: Oracle is a bigger version of MS Access?

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:14:34 -0400, "Thomas T" <T_at_T> wrote:

>Here's a parallel scenario...
>
>I think we should write our own operating system in binary, and run it on
>motherboards that we design, using chipsets that we burn ourselves. Why buy
>an off-the-shelf OS and motherboard when we can design something better then
>what already exists? Sure our paid time might be spent more wisely, but
>this way, we can customize the OS and motherboard and chips to do what we
>want.

Don't think that's just a joke. I know of one such project. OK, so they used off-the-rack chipsets, but the motherboard, OS, compiler, language even, were all custom. It was special, you see. You know, hard. Harder than using standard hardware and software. Fortunately the project got canned, sadly after about $40M (Australia, 1980's) down the hole. The "architect" went on to become a Microsoft consultant...

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