ZX-topia

Hello, CHRV Memories of a parallel future, or what would have happened if spec had not opposed to RS. Let's consider a hypothetical situation where ZX and RS as a result of competent Marketing in the territory of the ex-USSR was divided into different consumer niches. There were two computers. RS Ts for work (including at home), ZX Ts for hobbies. And so they complemented each other harmoniously, which was considered the norm when buying a PC for home be sure to take the ZX too because when used at home they were perceived as an inextricable whole, to which sellers and manufacturers of computer equipment were doubly glad, because everyone who bought a ZX subsequently sought to complement it with a PC and on the contrary. What could be the concept of ZX development in this alternative? Let the ZX not have (apart from the tape recorder) any of its own storage media. But because RS has them!! And because they are bought home in pairs, then God himself commanded them help each other. The PC is assigned the role of information storage and server for exiting on the network, as well as a print server, and the ZX acquires a system built into ROM remote access and transfer of information between it and the PC using standard writing or some kind of purely Spec interface for which it was developed special card. PC uses VGA, ZX Ts TV. For particularly difficult tasks on the ZX (based on the throughput of the communication interface C, for example, streaming video :smile;); a ZX version has been developed built into a PC as an expansion card, where loading information in the ZX goes directly through switched memory banks or in external execution via a fast interface in DMA mode loading into buffers memory banks. Software developers do not need to invent an OS for the ZX In such a tandem, he doesn’t need it, and those tasks that require it can be started on the PC server and work with them as a remote terminal. Hardware developers you need to put on the ZX nothing that the RS already has. ZX is small, low power, convenient, versatile and scalable. All released the energy of hardware developers is directed towards developing scalability performance, RAM scalability, video processor scalability. No the need to invent features that are not typical for the ZX, duplicating the capabilities of the PC video modes, scaling is based on increasing color depth with parallel introduction of automatic processing of graphic primitives within the video processor. The introduction of a new element base is aimed at reducing dimensions, reduced power consumption, increased reliability. For manufacturers gaming software due to scalability there is no need to radically reshape your products by preparing releases for the next scalable expansion of iron, because the development of iron is proceeding in a single conceptual direction, andSoftware updates are quick, easy and at the same time the release of new iron, because specifications become available at the stage of its design. The software content of the ZX platform is huge for the following reasons: - narrowing the range of tasks - there is no need to create software that duplicates the capabilities of the PC; - speed of updating releases for new hardware; - the ZX platform itself has been standardized (there are no different hardware standards, because development proceeds in a single conceptual direction). And they lived happily ever after, complementing and helping each other :smile; .;