Star The Next Big Thing? Open Peripheral Hardware Connectivity
Linked by Jim Kirkley on Thu 12th Jun 2003 02:18 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems 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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Abstracted driver model
by AndrewB on Thu 12th Jun 2003 17:23 UTC

The "Physical" device driver development needs to occur ONLY ONCE. And if the higher level command languages are standardized for each device type--those devices essentially become Plug n Play accross any conceivable combination of... computer, OS and programming language.

Its this formalized division of purpose that SciTech SNAP is built on... as long as the physical device never changes then nether should its associated device driver. Changes made to an already supported OS for the most should have no impact on the physical devise driver and as such are isolated in a separate OS shell driver.