On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 18:11:31 GMT, essteam wrote: >Jesse Robinson wrote >"supplying the entire OS on a chip" > >I heard a similar statement delivered by the Late Great Bob Yelevich in the >early 1990s. >He suggested that CICS would be delivered on a Board, or possibly a >component/domain would >be delivered on a board. > Convergent evolution. Nowadays, that chip might be a filesystem on a flash drive.
The TI Home Computer, circa 1981, tried something of the sort. It was a very closed system with software available only on proprietary pluggable modules. It was not a resounding business success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN