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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Another thing, Mac are evolving, Macs are using PCI and AGP now, but some graphic cards have a special Mac version, with a specific bios.. If PCI and AGP are standards then why ?
PCI as a spec defines that the firmware of the device be in Forth bytecode and that the underlying architecture support the interpretation of this bytecode..... unless the processor is an x86. In that case, the firmware is just x86 machine code.
Not sure if AGP is the same, but I understand that as a spec it builds upon PCI so it probably is the same story.
Speaking of which, it's nice to see editorials like this, but the bottom line is that it doesn't propose anything new. Solutions very much like this have been proposed and even implemented dozens of times before but have fallen short on adoption because of market forces. And for good reason! 90% of the time when a spec is abandoned there's a good technical reason for it. It's frustrating for sure but you have to be crazy to believe that this industry with it's preposterous rate of change could lock down on a total 'Universal' standard.