Sergio, This entire debate reminds me of the late pre-micro era. I had my own plan to build the first microcomputer. It was to be a bipolar chip that implemented a bit-serial architecture. It would have been about the same speed as the early MOS micros, but would have modern-day word lengths and hardware multiply/divide. In short, it was a better way that was never built.
Since then, I have met two other people who had their own plans to build the first microcomputer, each of which was quite different from the others, and all of which were MUCH better than any of the early micros. So, why did they waste good silicon building garbage like the 4004 and 8008? Because we were on the OUTSIDE. Our proposals were being rejected by the same sorts of folks who were working on the 4004, and so they had to be killed lest they compete. We failed because we couldn't get past the front door. However, the 4004 succeeded because they had easily avoided the greatest barrier of all - the front door. Here we fail because we are outsiders to all of the corporations who desperately need what we know how to do. Of course we can always throw proposals over their transoms, only to find their way to the very people who would be threatened by them. In short, this is a people problem, and not a technological problem. Any ideas for a good solution? Steve ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
