AVR-Chat

>Experts in the field tried that in the 1980's, IIRC. The architects
>of SQL, if you want. Instead, they realized that it was more
>realistic and practical to try to do it well in software _first_ on
>generic hardware that was rapidly growing to be more capable by the
>month.
>
>You may have heard of a company called Sybase.
>
>Implementing new features is software is still trivial compared to
>doing it in hardware.
>
>Triggers and stored procedures are two relevant concepts.

Chip manufacturing today, is entirely different from what it was "in the
80's". The battle for hardware vs. software is shifting as (re-)programmable
chip-fabric is dropping in price, and really speeding up... I've noted
several FPGA-based computers arising, and paralell processing is now beeing
put to a different level.
I believe that tomorrow's computers will be able to rearrange their internal
structure, or parts of it, to suite their immediate needs. I also believe
that this is comparable to organic neural networks...

However, this kind of structure requires a new generation operating-system.
AFAIK no currently available OS can handle this kind of parallell
processing...

So, Kat, I'll say. As long as you get reasonably payed (and secure your
copyrights), and believe - go for it!

However - this discussion kind'of get quite OT (for AVR-Chatting, that is
:), so I'll second Graham Davies' suggestion on creating a new
yahoo-group...

- Øystein Fallo

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