Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the one thing about minority platforms though ... I've been working with > these all my life I think. Starting with Unix. So the "minority platform" > argument is one that I don't like that much.
The minority platform argument is only good enough to say we won't get all drivers for free. Beyond that I agree it doesn't make a lot of sense. Beyond that. A tenative design: A standalone static application, that can either: - Run directly on raw hardware. - Run on top of an OS just to use it's drivers. Running hosted on an OS shouldn't be hard with a good abstraction layer, which we need for flexibility anyway. Which means that a UDP/IP stack at least must reside in the app. I need to do some serious investigation but this looks like the best approximation I currently see. Using the Linux kernel or plan9 appear to promising to drop. But at the same time I haven't seen a tradeoff free version of those. And being able to fit an entire BIOS into 64K is extremely attractive. Are there any more hardware/features it looks like we need to support? Ignoring the implementation details. Eric
