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From: Ed Vance <EdV@macrolink.com>
To: "'jeff millar'" <wa1hco@adelphia.net>
Cc: Shane Helms <shanehelms@eircom.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ???
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 18:00:55 -0800 
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On Wed, December 04, 2002 at 4:28 PM, jeff millar wrote:
> My opinion...
> 
> Kernels are getting mature in the sense the there's not that 
> many ways to do tasking and hardware interface.  It no 
> longer a game of invention but a game of polishing.  The 
> amount of total work available probably continues to go
> up because kernels are becoming as common as screws.
> 
> It's like the guy who invented interchangable hardware in the
> 1700's...really cool and creates plenty of work but it's no 
> longer bleeding edge to design the next screw thread in the 
> next material.
> 
> So, do you want to push the edge and discover new principles 
> and go where no one has gone before?  Or do you want to make 
> the existing implementations better than anyone else ever has 
> before?
> 
> [ ... VHDL ... FPGA ]

Oh, ye of little imagination. 

It's only polishing because the new work must merge into the 
framework imposed by the old work (un*x legacy environment). 

If you assume nothing about OS architecture, there are still 
huge vistas of unexplored solution space, where no one has gone
before. It's just really hard for engineers to let go of the 
stuff that works and start climbing from the bottom of the 
mountain. 

cheers,

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