Valid point, but still makes $1500 a bit expensive for the average hobbyst. -Mario Quoting Ruben J=F6nsson : > What about license costs for the CE and .NET Micro Framework? > > /Ruben > >> > >> http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2007/11/15/ce-6-0-for-hobbyists.a= spx >> > Just read this, seems to be interesting. >> > >> > The .NET Micro Framework 2.0 is also interesting. >> > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/embedded/bb267253.aspx >> > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/embedded/bb278106.aspx >> > >> > >> > Regards, >> > Xiaofan >> >> >> This is good news and got me all excited, except that when I started to >> look for >> a hardware development board, the majority of sites I found did not >> have prices >> listed, and the ones that did, seem to start at around US $1500 and up. >> >> For that price, I'd rather strip an older machine I have at home, for >> example a >> Pentium D ~1.6GHz machine and develop on that. One could go through the >> trouble of putting CE on it, but why would the hobbyist really want to >> do that, >> if the stripped pc already runs full copy of XP or Linux? >> >> Some site out there does have a board for $104, but it's got a 386 cpu >> and iirc, >> it's running at 33MHz. >> >> So, for the price of a somewhat nice dev board, you can get yourself 2 >> or 3 very >> good full pcs and go to town on it. >> >> The price seems to be ok, if your company is going to pay for it and you= 'll >> be >> doing real work and over time the company's investment will be recouped,= but >> I >> don't see this as being very accessible to the average hobbyst, unless I= 'm >> missing something here (and if I am, I'd like to hear it from you). >> >> In my case I already have an MSDN license, so I get the SDK's and all of= the >> goodies, which the $1500 seems to include at least some of it. >> >> >> -Mario >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > Ruben J=F6nsson > AB Liros Electronic > Box 9124, 200 39 Malm=F6, Sweden > TEL INT +46 40142078 > FAX INT +46 40947388 > ruben@pp.sbbs.se > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- = http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist