It appears now that Moore's law will be manifest for the forseeable future in multiple processors on a chip rather than increasing clock speeds. Parallel processing beomes more and more important in such a world.
There is a connection here with REST and the way the web works. That connection, Resource Oriented Computing, is being pursued in the NetKernel initiative. "I never heard the phrase 'REST micro-kernel' before, but I had an immediate expectation of what that would mean. An hour's experimentation with the system met that expectation. Wildly interesting stuff." Jon Udell (infoworld) http://www.1060research.com/netkernel/index.html Comments, BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
