1. Re: portability...serious NEW ground
Yes, it is true that much of the 'portability' issue is old ground, and has
been gone over many times before, but since it currently is such a hot
topic, I too wish to maybe raise the temperature a bit more if I may. I
have said this before recently, but I will say it again, and now put a bit
of a twist on the question:
I am being funded, among other things, to carry out a mandate which I
pressed my backers for, and they agree for me to do. This is to develop a
usable basis on several of the Game Consoles (Nintendo, Sega, Sony) so that
they can be accessed as something higher than 'embedded Thin Client'
machines, but better and more sane than Windows CE, i.e., a very abstract
open-system OS which will straddle the various RISC processors of these
units. I intend to do this with the help of several 'gamers', and I AM
starting this in the second week of this month (Nov 99). This is a very
serious project, hoping among other things, to help widen some of the
cracks in the PC-only mentality, which unfortunately, is very evident even
in the enlightened discussions of this, the EU forum.
What I am asking now is, not can it be done, but how much will it cost? I
am going to have to do this one way or the other.
Discussion and feedback and flames welcome.
Norm
