I remember reading that Gateway origionally contracted with cobalt to build an internet appliance for small businesses, they chose cobalt because of the smaller box and when cobalt failed to deliver they dropped them and had a smaller company ?eSoft? pick them up....they elected to ditch the hardware in favor of something x86 based...I think (for compiler reasons)
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I remember reading that Gateway origionally contracted with cobalt to build an internet appliance for small businesses, they chose cobalt because of the smaller box and when cobalt failed to deliver they dropped them and had a smaller company ?eSoft? pick them up....they elected to ditch the hardware in favor of something x86 based...I think (for compiler reasons)