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I liked this concept the first time i heard it. When I sought the opinions of other "computer savy" I remembered why I never read the comments.

Most people were negative and focused on why it couldnt be done. Complete non-constructive banter. when i tell my linux friend, the guy who got me into alt. os, about something another non-linux-os does better I get the same kind of arrogance. No one like any idea they or thier particular group didnt come up with. This is the same reason one guy can wright Atheos, but an entire community cant do better than rpm's cli for the most basic functions.

Linux is an excellent operating system, but the fact is 99.9% of the globe, as of today, will prefer windows when they have to get their hands dirty at all.

It doesn't take a science fiction novelist to figure out computers will one day be as small as a credit card. In the not too distant future, the computer u are using today, with all its processing power, will fit inside something the size of your wallet. These new gameboys have better graphics than my old 486sx33 could ever pump out. Its the trend.

So what the hell is everybody talking about?

Chris:
"Compatibility sounds great, but competition -- newer, bigger, better, faster -- is how these companies stay in business."

Take the word bigger out of that sentence right off the bat, replace with smaller. Now think back to setting jumpers for comm ports and irq's on 2400 baud modems. Modems have gotten smaller and more compatible while at THE SAME TIME becoming faster, and as a result BETTER. I dont see the problem?

You dont think there is a market for, say, large businesses and universities who have to supply their employees/students with pcs. why not give them what is the future's equivalent of portable HDs, while dumb terminals do all the simple stuff you need. At home you can have whatever you want, the best monitor/GPU/sound card, at work/school you get what they give you.

There is still a market for hardware and a market for edge computiong systems. Hardware manufacturers may not like it, but they will adapt, or it will come out of the OSS comunity.

And is it just me or did beos work out of the box after 15 minutes of install, on udma-33 hardrives in about twohundred megs, five years ago. Imagine how fast you could essentially just reinstall a system on different hardware, storing the the OS in RAM memory using 128 bit MICROprocessors, with all your bits moving around on cooler-than-dr.-evil's-shark's laser. Will it be done like beos did it in ten years? No, but the point is we have the ability to do this right NOW.

Oizoken:
"sorry for putting my favorit os ahead"

I agree. Xdmcp worked just fine when I finally got it working last year. (I must be becomming a geek cuz no one spends that much time getting anything running "just to see")

Charlie Mac:
"First of all... as for being able to carry your "stuff" everywhere you go... I don't want to do that... carrying means that one could potentially lose their stuff along with the hardware it goes on"

You missed the point. No one said you couldnt back-up anymore or even have two "blade" cards.

null_pointer_us:
"For example, how would one use your device with complex 3D GPUs like those found in the latest generation of games?"
If I can have "all my stuff" on one card why cant I have a driver for my GPU on it too? Heck if my boss lets me play doom V at work, i can have a driver for his hardware too.

Jim Kirkley:
"But, maybe there's a work around. Say there's a follow-on to the X-box. A single board(no slots). An Intel/Nvidia whopper. No AGP at all. Just a superfast, superwide(256 bits) local bus between CPU, Video Chip, D-ram, and Video ram."

Yeah, lets make the whole thing outta those!

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In closiong, I know less about computers than anyone else who has posted on this article, but in a way I think that helps. Hope my first post was a good one. Is this what you guys call "flaming"?