USB Universal Floppy Disk controller

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Mon Mar 14 23:48:11 CST 2005


> [...Xilinx devices...]

> These are easily programmed using zero-cost development software you
> can download from the Xilinx web site,

I'm not sure it's really fair to call running someone else's
binary-only software "zero-cost".  That kind of risk is relatively
expensive, in trouble and safeguards if all goes well, in putting the
machine back together one way or another if not.

If, as I fully expect to be the case[%], it's also software that runs
only under closed-source licensed-for-$ operating systems, it's not
anything like zero-cost, since it demands buying RTU the relevant OS.

[%] What little I could find on the Xilinx webpages was not clear about
    downloading - it seems to want a login of some sort - but seemed to
    be all about XP, apparently meaning Windows XP.  Perhaps I missed
    something because their pages are too lynx-hostile....

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