Why reinvent the wheel? The PCIs were quite competent. Now 'they' get a performance boost by offloading some DSP demand on the newer/faster chips - keeping the architecture and thus programming nearly the same. Makes sense to me.jksuperstar wrote:In my mind, the Slot idea in XITE reflects the older PCI paradigm: each slot is like a PCI card, and the older sharcs serve as the cables between cards. The optimizer doesn't seem to take this into account.
Perhaps SCOPE 6 was a bit of a moving target for a small team to hit: there are small armies of programmers working for MS/Apple developing their OSs, very difficult to keep pace much less get ahead. At the time SCOPE 6 was introduced as 'nearly complete' it probably wasn't too ambitious, but now we've skipped 9 and gone straight to Windows 10. Not that I'm interested in that at all, I found 8 to be abhorrent.
