On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 02:24:06PM +0100, Dieter wrote:
> > So I'm not sure external print servers would be a good open hardware
> > proposition...
>
> I am not suggesting a print server. Existing devices in the market
> are probably good enough as print servers.
>
> I am suggesting a DEVICE server.
> Yes it could be used for a printer.
> More importantly, it could also be used for many other devices.
Device server? How about a motherboard that breaks the 16-interrupt
limit of the classic PC? It could use multi-level vectored interrupts, like
the 68000 on VME bus, which gives practially unlimited interrupts. Then it
could have a whole lot of PCI slots, and the resources to actually use them
in an I/O-heavy application.
Of course, MS wouldn't support all those I/O slots, but do we care?
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