[cctalk] Old UNIX Systems

On 4 June 2013 15:04, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote: What about a 36" tablet? There is absolutely no reason why not. What I am talking about is not pocketable devices, nor even portable devices. What I am talking about is ubiquitously touch-sensitive screens, with the "smarts" of the PC built into the back of them. CPUs, RAM and Flash storage are all getting cheaper, smaller, cooler-running and less power-hungry. Soon, they will be built into monitors /even if you don't want to use them/, just like for well over a decade, some LCD monitors have speakers, integral USB hubs and things, /just in case,/ even though most people don't use them. In some of these, one of the functions of the USB circuitry is a full display adaptor - so if you have no free monitor ports, you just plug the screen into a spare USB2 port and the PC sees it as another monitor. And you can daisychain them. No, most people don't use it - but once it is essentially free to include, why not? Some monitors have a full ARM computer built in, so you can detach the screen and keep working on the move, running WinCE or Android.

Those free built-in computers are probably going to grow up to be full-power PCs, once it's cheap enough to just add a full-power PC just to run the internal control circuitry. To talk about doing full-scale big-screen layout work on something the size of an iPad is just egregiously stupid. If you're doing it in the hopes of point-scoring in an argument, you just lost. -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884