Linked by Jim Kirkley on Thu 12th Jun 2003 02:18 UTC
Back on June 9 2003, OSNews posted an article by Joshua Boyles entitled "The Edge Computing System". In that article Joshua lays out his vision, "of a new and very unique computing system". In this new article, an attempt will be made to further build on Jonathan's ideas through what can be termed, "Open Peripheral Hardware Connectivity".
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>> "Both concepts are already specified, and mostly implemented, in the Uniform Driver Interface (UDI), which is gleefully ignored by the masses (even among OS alternative advocates around here) and actively flamed by the FSF because it doesn't fit their picture of "free" software."
UDI isn't exactly what those two guys described. UDI is a way to write drivers once for all OSes, but specific to a hardware version/vendor. In other words, under UDI you could have 30 different sound or video drivers, or 300 different NIC drivers. What the guys were describing is devices using one common set of commands, therefore requiring only one NIC driver.
Combining this open hardware connection idea with UDI, it would mean we could have a single driver working under all OSes. It still presents a couple of problems, since UDI is expecting x86 hardware IIRC, rather than using some VM bytecode.