http://cqi.com/~humbubba/fire8.htm
F.I.R.E. stands for "Individual's Recursively Forth Environment."
Some of the ideas from FIRE pertain to Linux, such as the membership
model for compensation. This arises because Forth is open-source at
the virtual machine level.
Hardware ideas that may be of interest;
static main RAM.
Local cluster topology, i.e. stackable small boxes, each with a power
supply ( somewhat like the Netwinder, but with an edge-connector
"chain" instead of ethernet )
ZIPI music protocol, ( MIDI follow-on suitable for the quantity of
input data generated by a guitar )
DMA-tasking. Switching CPUs on a task switch. (silicon Forth engines
are tiny)
Totally nuts, of course. Another hardware idea that might be more
achievable and more insidious is to get a Linux onto a "video card"
with 16 meg of static "video RAM == Linux main memory".
(o:o)
Rick Hohensee http://cqi.com/~humbubba
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