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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Your PDA device appears to have no support for high-bandwidth peripherals. For example, how would one use your device with complex 3D GPUs like those found in the latest generation of games? In your idea the GPU and its related circuitry would be located in the base station, and the only link between the game on the PDA and the GPU in the base station would be a relatively slow Firewire connection. And what is the latency difference between an external connection like Firewire compared with an internal connection like PCI-X?
Of course one might argue that your PDA is just a portable home directory - a sort of hot pluggable Firewire drive. It does not need an operating system, CPU, or RAM per se, but would fulfill your expectations if both the base stations and the PDAs maintained a standard interface for storing and retrieving user documents and OS-agnostic preferences. You could plug your PDA into any base station and the base station would automatically retrieve your theme, mail client settings, mailbox, wallpaper and other OS-agnostic settings as well as provide you with access to your documents and all your personal data.