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09-27-2007
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| | Re: At last!!!>> I am announcing THE NEW ERA OF OS's. Never heard of Citrix or Terminal Services? "dennis@xxxxxx" <dennis@xxxxxx-ass.net> wrote in message news:345EDE96-43E8-489A-9515-2DD3A715FD45@xxxxxx Quote: > > "Vista User" <VistaRules@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:fdh0hn$jhj$1@xxxxxx Quote: >> Scotty is looking for you in the transporter room. >> > You shouldn't laugh too soon. > A few years ago I worked with a company in Oxford who were working on > compilers that produced hardware. > > The hardware was in the form of programmable gate arrays. > It could do some interesting things:- > > like a game that had moving "sprites" and land masses to navigate.. all > done without any CPU and done in a parallel way.. so parallel there wasn't > even a screen buffer, the display was generated on the fly. > > another one that was done for us was a voip phone.. everything was > compiled onto the silicon including the IP stack. > > Only one thing I saw used a "processor" and that was a java engine and > even that was complied from a "C" like source. It ran a web browser and > was used to select and load which bit of hardware you were going to use. > It took about a second to change the hardware from one task to another. > > I haven't keep track of the technology since, but I might have a look if I > can remember who it was. > > http://www.xilinx.com/publications/x...8-cebatech.pdf > gives details of a similar system but I don't think it was the one I > played with. > > Its only a matter of time before computers are replaced by reconfigurable > hardware and then the Mac/PC and OS wars will be over (maybe). > > |
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09-27-2007
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| | Re: At last!!!>> I am announcing THE NEW ERA OF OS's. "Vista User" <VistaRules@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:fdh6g3$435$1@xxxxxx Quote: > Never heard of Citrix or Terminal Services? Try reading the pdf. |
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09-27-2007
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| | Re: At last!!!>> I am announcing THE NEW ERA OF OS's. "dennis@xxxxxx" <dennis@xxxxxx-ass.net> wrote in message news:%23dmZf2UAIHA.4732@xxxxxx Quote: > > "Vista User" <VistaRules@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:fdh6g3$435$1@xxxxxx Quote: >> Never heard of Citrix or Terminal Services? > You don't understand. > Try reading the pdf. service with a dedicated hardware device close enough to be considered by the masses as a computer with a dedicated "OS". |
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09-28-2007
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| | Re: At last!!!>> I am announcing THE NEW ERA OF OS's. "Vista User" <VistaRules@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:fdh8rs$aps$1@xxxxxx Quote: > > "dennis@xxxxxx" <dennis@xxxxxx-ass.net> wrote in message > news:%23dmZf2UAIHA.4732@xxxxxx Quote: >> >> "Vista User" <VistaRules@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> news:fdh6g3$435$1@xxxxxx Quote: >>> Never heard of Citrix or Terminal Services? >> You don't understand. >> Try reading the pdf. > I do understand. I would still consider running "Code" to attach to a > service with a dedicated hardware device close enough to be considered by > the masses as a computer with a dedicated "OS". > The hardware changes on the fly when you switch application. Like I said I have seen a device with no processor at all running video games and VoIP and other stuff. |
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