USB Universal Floppy Disk controller

[Scott Stevens]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:30:39 -0800 (PST)
"Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:


> However, I don't *really* think you want to spend the rest of your
> life writing your own FPGA development software.  It's a hard problem
> and there are hundreds of thousands of man-years of development effort
> in the Xilinx software.  By the time you got your own software working
> for one family, that family would have long since been discontinued.
> 
> Eric

I would suspect that while there might be hundreds of thousands of man
hours, that there just can't possible be hundreds of thousands of man
*years* involved.

Hundreds of thousands of man years is just frightening to think about. 
Maybe something like the Apollo mission.