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This version of webneurons seems to be the gold in the pot.
It should be very clean to develop. There is however a huge problem.
The resources are not available to cover more than one type of computer.
In that case the only one to go for is the PC. But PC's still use a 16 bit BIOS
which makes it extremely difficult to program in 32 bits which is essential.
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After looking at this one for a while it was decided to program devices directly without going through the BIOS. This can be done in 32 bits, but is like re-inventing the wheel. It is thought to be unavoidable though because you can't easily get to the BIOS in protected mode which you must have for 32 bit programming. |
 Doing it in 32 bit AssemblerPlexosGoing to assembler levelThis is a huge task but could be made simpler by some of the properties of webneurons. For example, no files are required, so that should simplify the hard disk interface. RAM could be used for everything and then just dump to hard disk for backup storage. OK, so there would be a massive loss of capacity but these days RAM is getting very cheap. |
| The assembler version is quite simple and you can probably get the jist of it from the picture link "Doing it in 32 bit assembler", and the other pictures which show more diagramatically how the webneurons link up. A very preliminary start was made on an ATARI falcon some years ago. This was because it was 32 bit and no BIOS problem. If we do go ahead with the assembler version it is proposed that a new PC operating system/browser is written and called Plexos (PLEXus OS) | ||