Absolute a great story. I have trouble buying the claim that this will be the last of its kind though. I expect hardware and software to become much easier to create. This sort of ground-up project might become almost common place.
I think the point was more how incredibly new the entire stack was at the time. Most “serious” hardware projects these days use some variant of Linux, Windows, or Contiki, and I don’t see that changing (although I can see a BSD flying alongside Linux one day, maybe). Psion, by contrast, was an entirely new full stack. New OS, new APIs, the whole shebang. That’s the difference I think they were trying to highlight, and the one they don’t think will happen again. I think I agree.
In the short-term I agree people will build on an existing kernel. In ten years or so, i suspect that wont be the case. I would expect hardware and lower-level software in particular to be synthesized together. We won’t be hand-crafting that level at all.
Absolute a great story. I have trouble buying the claim that this will be the last of its kind though. I expect hardware and software to become much easier to create. This sort of ground-up project might become almost common place.
I think the point was more how incredibly new the entire stack was at the time. Most “serious” hardware projects these days use some variant of Linux, Windows, or Contiki, and I don’t see that changing (although I can see a BSD flying alongside Linux one day, maybe). Psion, by contrast, was an entirely new full stack. New OS, new APIs, the whole shebang. That’s the difference I think they were trying to highlight, and the one they don’t think will happen again. I think I agree.
In the short-term I agree people will build on an existing kernel. In ten years or so, i suspect that wont be the case. I would expect hardware and lower-level software in particular to be synthesized together. We won’t be hand-crafting that level at all.