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RE: Print/price question - RE: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!




Guys, I'm not trying to make this unfair at all.  I'm trying to pay my
internet bill and save for college.  Not rip you off.  Thats why I sell
them.  I will have most of my other CalcNet peripherals for download.

Grant

>Lose money?  Then explain why most PC companies use a Flash BIOS design
>nowadays, and no one goes about ripping them off.  You could probably cram
>

I've seen www sites with bios, as well as pirated roms.

128-bit encryption if you wanted to onto a floppy, and have a processor
decode the stream of data and use it to rewrite another AVR's code.  As you
said, code can be ripped from anything, it's just a matter of how easy it
is to do so.  Anyone who bothers to decompress and decrypt your code (for a
system that they probably already paid for) DESERVES to play around with
the CalcNet.

What I'm saying is that they could copy the disk and let the internet have it.

>        Don't be so paranoid just yet.  I haven't seen anyone rip off the
>EuP PIC code yet, and I seriously doubt that anyone would really want to
>steal your

There are some real sick people that would like to take profits from me
that would otherwise go to my college account.

 AVR code, just based on the fact that there's no real money in it unless
they can make their own chips, which can also become expensive.  Your main
worry is not with hackers, but maybe the MBus, which has already shown
promise in its chat program.

But, MBus can only handle 1.4k per sec wiht 2 calcs, 700b with 4, I have
proven rates of 479k per sec with a computer parallel port.  THat is with
all ports sending and receiving.  The CalcNet bus can handle 612,000bps
before it generates errors, and I have it regulated to 500k per sec...

>        Don't get me wrong, I'm working on the drivers (finals are
>tomorrow, give me some time), but I'm just stating that you're
>overreacting.

Okay.

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Grant Stockly
AppleCyber - http://www.alaska.net/~gussie



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