A completely redesigned PC based on free and open standards and low latency technologies throughout to maximize real time capabilities.
As it is, the busses are too slow to enable for instance a good PC based oscilloscope. And there is not an open bus like for instance on Raspberry Pi.
It would need to abandon X86, maybe a modern Alpha could do it. Alpha is basically a better API than X86, and they were way faster, until they were cancelled to promote Itanium instead. Risc V would be another option.
Such a project however, would probably have little chance of succeeding no matter how good. Because software would be needed for success, and to attract software it needs to be successful.
But it should be a system that invites creativity through openness and capabilities. A bit like the Amiga allowed by being open in the 80’s, but not owned by any single company. Amiga did all sorts of stuff no other computers were capable of, because it was open and better at real time tasks than anything Intel had.
The price estimate for the project including designing new CPU and Custom chips, would be about $10-50 billion. And probably closer to the 50!!!
A completely redesigned PC based on free and open standards and low latency technologies throughout to maximize real time capabilities.
As it is, the busses are too slow to enable for instance a good PC based oscilloscope. And there is not an open bus like for instance on Raspberry Pi.
It would need to abandon X86, maybe a modern Alpha could do it. Alpha is basically a better API than X86, and they were way faster, until they were cancelled to promote Itanium instead. Risc V would be another option.
Such a project however, would probably have little chance of succeeding no matter how good. Because software would be needed for success, and to attract software it needs to be successful.
But it should be a system that invites creativity through openness and capabilities. A bit like the Amiga allowed by being open in the 80’s, but not owned by any single company. Amiga did all sorts of stuff no other computers were capable of, because it was open and better at real time tasks than anything Intel had.
The price estimate for the project including designing new CPU and Custom chips, would be about $10-50 billion. And probably closer to the 50!!!