RE: why Target cannot change its mind

["Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>]

> I would love to hear an
> example of something put into the PCI spec. (or some other major industry
> spec. I guess) that was put there for the purpose of making it difficult
> for small companies to compete.

PCI is a prime example.  It was specifically designed to require an ASIC to
interface to.  ASICs cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to make,
and as such, prohibit small companies from doing them.

I wrote, what I believe was, the first PCI implementation in an FPGA, which,
at the time, was quite a feat...since the FPGAs, without all sorts of
tricks, were not very PCI compliant.

Obviously, FPGAs, being much more compliant, and with cores, now level the
playing field to some degree.