On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 10:23:36PM +1300, Wesley Parish wrote:
> I concluded during the nineties that the general purpose computer was
> somewhat clumsily designed, and should instead be split up into
> function domains, with each function domain being assigned one primary
> function and being made to do it well; with the bus being replaced by
> a network.
sounds interesting, what domains would you see there?
also it seems that we are already getting there:
broadband routers with builtin firewall,
networked printers.
network diskstorages are coming up too.
voip capable phones.
networking capable tvboxes.
internet radio boxes.
the more people realize that all of this can be done over the net, the
more special purpose devices are going to appear and eventually that
general purpose computer will be reduced to a typewriter again.
and for the programmers among us, of course all of those devices are
programmable and a lot of them will run linux.
greetings, martin.
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