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Re: NI Week Athena Announcement and Q&A Panel

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Originally Posted by Racer26 View Post
The truth of the matter is that we simply don't need that much processing horsepower.
Wasn't it Bill Gates who said something like 'we simply don't need more than 640k RAM'? How many CPU cycles is too many?
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Originally Posted by Racer26 View Post
I'm disappointed by the price point. To me, a FIRST controller should be priced such that each team can receive a free one each year, as we did with the IFI system. I know I'm not the only one that feels 1 free donated one, and then needing to buy one each subsequent year is NOT a good solution. This is partly an artifact of using so much excess processing power.
The larger artifact was the agreement between IFI and FIRST, which was expensive and unsustainable.

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Originally Posted by nuggetsyl View Post
I would like to make a request for GEN 2 of our new 2014 controller.
Our 2015 controller? 2014 will look suspiciously like a cRio...
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