I'm not signed onto any Berlin lists (and don't really know how to find
them anyways - but some berlin folks follow this list)
Okay so I need a few things in a GUI:
Modularity!!!
Embedibility!!!
Oh - does Berlin run yet btw? (and can it handle a movie player? :)
[and multimedia?]
There may be
0+ displays (yes - as few as zero)
also 0+ sound devices...
0+ input devices
0+ running programs
0+ other computers hooked up...
All of these -should- be 'plug and play' *grin* - as in plug 'em in and
they turn on.. and unplug 'em and the system doesn't crash.
... note that they'll probably be over a network (or network-like)
connection at high speeds *grin*.... I'm hoping to dig up something that
does 1G/s as a base :) [note that to update 1024x1024x32bpp at 60fps
requires 240M/s... and current top fibre speeds are >1Tb/s. Though I don't
know what latency's like these days]
It's kinda fun. I was dithering about actually using some X but it's not
up to handling the constantly changing devices...
I -am- building this in hardware. If no software exists I'll build it
myself. But I'd rather be nice (for a change) and help other folks out :)
... I -have- a working prototype of some of my ideas but some trouble with
shared memory coherency.. gleah it's slow to write...
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis
