Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Low-Tech OLPC Laptop Still a Marvel
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> | By picking small-fry chip fabricators instead of Intel for the 500
> | megahertz central microprocessor, the OLPC project has shunned the
> | American industrial establishment, as it has since the project was
> | introduced by Nicholas Negroponte at the World Economic Summit in
> | Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 28, 2005.
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>
> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/52283.html
I like this quote from the article:
> At long last, MIT-associated computer experts gave a demonstration
> of a working model of the final machine to be distributed to
> worldwide poverty regions, to the dismay of some industry
> stalwarts -- notably the folks running Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)
.... and notably to the dismay of all Win trolls who post in this newsgroup.
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HPT
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