On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 18:11:31 GMT, essteam wrote:
>Jesse Robinson wrote
>"supplying the entire OS on a chip"
>
>I heard a similar statement delivered by the Late Great Bob Yelevich in the
>early 1990s.
>He suggested that CICS would be delivered on a Board, or possibly a
>component/domain would
>be delivered on a board.
>
Convergent evolution. Nowadays, that chip might be a filesystem on a flash
drive.
The TI Home Computer, circa 1981, tried something of the sort. It was a very
closed system with software available only on proprietary pluggable modules.
It was not a resounding business success.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A
-- gil
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