Re:Project Oberon
by magicalhippo on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:04AM
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Lets say you did. You launch it, people are excited, they start using it.
But stuff will evolve, people will want to innovate. So they make new hardware, and they make new libraries because lets face it, chances you get everything right the first time is slim to none.
And after a few years you're back to having backwards compatibility issues, and some years after that you're starting to feel the mismatch between hardware and software again etc.
As for cheaper, consider this. You can get an ATX motherboard with lots of functionality most people won't use, for like $50 or so. In low quantities just the PCB alone, just empty tracks with no components would be much more than that.
But stuff will evolve, people will want to innovate. So they make new hardware, and they make new libraries because lets face it, chances you get everything right the first time is slim to none.
And after a few years you're back to having backwards compatibility issues, and some years after that you're starting to feel the mismatch between hardware and software again etc.
As for cheaper, consider this. You can get an ATX motherboard with lots of functionality most people won't use, for like $50 or so. In low quantities just the PCB alone, just empty tracks with no components would be much more than that.