Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Tue 13th Jul 2004 21:56 UTC
After personal computers arrived in the 1970's they went through a series of revolutionary changes delivered by a series of different platforms. It's been over a decade since we've seen anything truly revolutionary, will we see a revolution again? I believe we could not only see revolution again, we could build it today.
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first, kudos on the reference, i would like to see that more common into tech journalism.
The Atari Falcon did feature a DSP. Forgetting The russian Setun computer and the CBM SID chip is criminal.
The arcticle is interesting, even if it have some error
I think the only way to make think move it to be a treath to the big guys. This mean doing PCI (or the standard that will be next) surface mount card that can unload part of the OS. I could really see a "Haiku detected your Media kit hardware card and will use it" at boot time just like old psygnosis amiga game did with extented memory card for A500.
Another break to this are laptop, the do it yourself hardware innovation is pretty much constrained to open big noisy beige box.
Another break to this is the number of hardware guy in engineering school, this is bad. I don't even myself do surface mount anymore and know very few guy that can do that at home.
Another problem, standard. A do it youself standard can pretty much only be imposed trough a known institution/fundation as a contest. Or perhaps by carving porn scene on top of each IC