"we'd just have Forth instead of the ACPI bytecode language."
*just*? We had that, on the OLPC XO-1, and it was a breath of fresh air. Meaningful self-tests of all the peripherals, an interactive REPL in the pre-boot environment, it was like living in the future.
"actually stands a reasonable chance of adoption" kills any innovation where it stands, because the only thing that stands a reasonable chance of adoption is whatever Microsoft mandates.
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*just*? We had that, on the OLPC XO-1, and it was a breath of fresh air. Meaningful self-tests of all the peripherals, an interactive REPL in the pre-boot environment, it was like living in the future.
"actually stands a reasonable chance of adoption" kills any innovation where it stands, because the only thing that stands a reasonable chance of adoption is whatever Microsoft mandates.