UAPI [Re: [ros-general] ReactOS UI...]

[Thomas Weidenmueller]

jwalsh at bigpond.net.au wrote:
> Hi Al.
> 
> Please correct me if I am being too naive.
> But what you have just said makes so much sense to me.
> The windowblinds will in fact be a matter for the CGI; separating the Form from the Content.
> I think I understand what you have said as being a kind of UAPI: Universal Application Programming Interface.
> I did a quick google on the abbrieviation and it does not yet exist. Only API.
> I hate inventing new terms when old ones serve just as well, if not better.
> However it comes from my old hardware days when the second biggest chip on the board was the UART: Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter.
> It was cleverly reduced by TI to a tiny 16 pin package, the rest done with a special 4KB bit memory and a few instructions.
> It (the "UAPI") does pretty  much the same thing which the Ethernet OSI 7 Layer Model tries to do. So far it The API looks and feels like software but is actually softWire, cleverly disguised. 
> I no NOT mean softwire as another name for software.
> Idealy the "UAPI"  reduces 7 layers of Meta-drivers to one Application.
> The use of the word Ether (like softwire) in the Network also lends false credence to the meaning of the API.
> The Ether was once thought to be Matterial which conducted light i.e. a kind of invisible wire. We now know it to be mere a Mode of the existence of Matter.
> Not an Object in the real sense but a purely Mental one.
> The concept may serve the interest of the Hardware (wire) Industry but not ours.
> Our R&D team is working  on this now.
> 
> Thanks for the the enlightening thought

ok....what? Sorry, can't follow...

- Thomas