Gary and Thread,
I wished to solicit some comments regarding the following.
I was reading last night about the model for success that Intel created and enjoyed for so many years. Beginning with their 8088/8086 CPU line they continued to add functionality in their 286, 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium MMX, Pentium Pro, Pentium II and now Pentium III products. Each successive offspring gobbled up more and more chips from the motherboard. Sound, multimedia, communications and videoconferencing hardware may also fall victim to this so-called "black hole" in the motherboard.
For SNDK to enjoy a similar string of successes there must be additional functionality. Being technologically challenged I will probably sound like a complete idiot. I am willing to take that risk. Would it be possible, for example, to create a CF module that housed the OS and could be upgraded at the users discretion with subsequent versions? The ease of upgrading would be phenomenal. Also, it would be great to be able to partition this module to include RAM memory and a cache. Clearly this would violate the standards of the CFA, but perhaps the final product would not be a CF card at all. It could eliminate such nuisances as the back-up lithium battery on the motherboard and the fear of losing all one's data should the device be left unattended for a period of time.
I am also interested to know if anybody has any expertise in voice recognition. One of the biggest drawbacks (nuisances) of the technology is creating the personalized phonic library that the computer scours each time the application is launched. It would be great to be able to create a single library of .wav audio files that could be permanently recorded on a CF card and transported from device to device. Voice recognition will someday be a huge part of our lives and it would be helpful to have a defacto standard so that such considerations could be facilitated. It would be fantastic to be able to walk up to a PC stationed somewhere in the workplace or offsite, plug in your voice library and dictate away. Having used a voice recognition program (Dragon Systems) for over a year on my home PC I have found the technology to be absolutely fascinating. It is especially gratifying because a linguistics professor at Yale told me in 1981 that such technology would never come to fruition in my lifetime. It seems like this innovation is already bearing fruit.
I guess Seagate sees some future in it as well. They own a big chunk of Dragon (soon to go public) in addition to their SanDisk interests. Could this be a match made in heaven?
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