The ability to have a large number of memory chips. What's good about 4gb
of linear memory if you could only use 3 Dimm chips of 128mb. How about 8
256mb or 8 512mb Dimm chips
Actually the only feature that I regret the PC bios makers of doing is
forgetting or just not implementing an any drive boot scheme. Why just fd0
and hda (a: and c:). I have seen very few machines that do this. There is
support for the L-120 and zip drives but why not everything that can hook to
a SCSI or IDE channel.
I would also like to see a native network solution (probably upgradeable via
socket controller chip) with built in support for remote boot. Since we
designing this machine as and for a Linux box then you should also think in
terms of other processors or multiple processors or a combination such as
the Amiga once had.
I was also thinking once that maybe a special memory area specific to the
OS, say a 16mb area in addition to the normal memory that may only be
accessed by the kernel module. But this is my contribution from being in
the windows world (Corel crashes so does windows).
USB seems like a good idea / concept but I am unsure weather I truly need
it. If anyone has any feedback on USR please feel free to share it.
Basic onboard video card (the old trident chipset maybe) for people who
really don't need that $200 video accelerator but just need that 256k VGA
system (like in them old days).
If you gave me an option like that that would also fit as a back-plane board
so I could put maybe 6 in a single machine then I would actually pay good
money for this.
Gary Smith
And remember, the more complex the computer world is the more I get paid.
Prime Exalia Technologies
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