JohnSwenson;576760 Wrote: > I can pretty much guarantee the Touch was not designed as a server, it > was designed as the next generation network player. When they got some > early prototypes up and running they realized it was only using half > the CPU and memory for the player software. Someone popped up with "I > wonder if the server could run on whats left over?" So they tried and > tried and turned things off, and tried different SQL engine and finally > got something that would work in what was leftover. Then marketing heard > about it, now it was a major feature being plugged by marketing so the > developers had to try and figure out how to make it work for most > people.
No. Then someone decided to add a USB port and SD card slot? It didn't happen that way. It was designed to run a server from the minute that it was conceived. Whether or not it was a good idea is a topic for a different discussion. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81784 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
