Salve, where you have take this confidential and sensitive MICRO$OFT marketing / pricing plan information. Its seem be realistic. Do you have any news about VIASUAL JAVAPIC, VISUAL BASICPIC, ACTIVEXPIC. I take this opportunity to wish of all of PIC'er and your family BUONA PASQUA Saluti -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Alan King A: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Data: sabato 11 aprile 1998 8.03 Oggetto: Re: [OT] OH NO!!! Barney is PIC'ed >Leonardo De Palo wrote: >> > Mike Harrison writes: >> > >> >> On Thu, 9 Apr 1998 13:42:42 -0600, you wrote: >> >> >> >> What? - Micro$oft writing a program in less than a few megabytes, no, >> >> sorry I don't beleive it! >> I have been the same reaction, but I have also thinked: hmmmm; and the next >> release will need WIN98, 500Mhz Pentium PRO, 128Mbytes and 12 Gbytes of HD?? >> Leonardo > > Actually Barney 98 (ha! it'll be '00) will have ten 400mhz Pics in >it. And to reduce manufacturing overhead, he'll buy Microchip. Then >you have to buy a Barney to get your chips, since Microsoftchip will >only sell the chips to OEMs for only $.10ea/qty 1/2 million. Then you >only have to purchase your Microsoftpicchip Windowspic ce/lite 98 for >each chip at only $89.95. (Which also includes your free copy of >internet explorer for the pic!) By the time your first Microsoftchip >PIC chip finishes booting and contacting the MSN to tell what other >illegal Microsoft products are operating in your home, you'll be in love >with Mr. Gates' new vision for your PIC embedded computing!