Getting hits is easy. Getting participation always means that you must provide a service in return. How about: 1. Cross-referencing each entry with others to see if the chips used per product, purchase prices, sources, etc... in the current entry were A) the best know price (for the products taking into account volume, geography, etc...) B) combined into another single chip etc.. (e.g. don't use 4 8 bit buffers when there is a single 1284 buffer chip available) C) not used by anybody else (indicating that a better way of doing it is available) D) caused problems for anybody else I think this type of thing could require a lot of ongoing work. 2. Searching the (many) different online suppliers for the best price and availability for the chips used in the product. This would require ongoing work each time the user interface to a suppliers search engine changed. 3. Sending out RFQ's for fab of the product to a list of houses. This would only require maintenance of the fab house email addresses. Just trying to toss out some ideas. James Newton, webmaster http://get.to/techref jamesnewton@geocities.com 1-619-652-0593 phoneÊ -----Original Message----- From: pic microcontroller discussion list [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Tjaart van der Walt Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 8:53 PM To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Comparing Apples with Apples Adam Davis wrote: > > It seems to me that the list would not be update frequently enough to contain > useable info, unless someone was Really motivated... I think you are right. I was thinking that a Javascript could automate it, but it will probably get a lot of hits from 'browsers', but few contributors. -- Friendly Regards /"\ \ / Tjaart van der Walt X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN mailto:tjaart@cellpt.co.za / \ AGAINST HTML MAIL |--------------------------------------------------| | GSM Technology for Positioning and Telematics | | Cellpoint Systems SA http://www.cellpt.com | | http://www.wasp.co.za/~tjaart/index.html | | WGS84 -26.0124 +28.1129 Voice +27 (0)11 2545100 | |--------------------------------------------------|