Running Linux is great, but not all the software is
cheap. The "official" PL/1 compiler for Linux (and who
uses PL/1, you might ask!) costs $15,000 per user.
Mind you, they only have to find one buyer a year, and
they're in the money...
Anyone care to write a Multics-like wrapper for Linux?
:) Or extend the -free- and Open Source PL/M compiler
to include the extra stuff in PL/1?
Exotic hardware is no cheaper. A transponder capable
of driving two twisted pair lines, with the ARINC
aviation protocol in hardware, fetches $3,000 each.
The plug is a standard 24-pin serial port.
You might not get rich quick, but you can certainly
upset a lot of people coding the same protocol into
Linux. It would make a severe dent in whatever profit
there is to be made.
And that ends your morning trivial.
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