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

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

Justin


---- Al Hartman <alhartman6(a)comcast.net> wrote: 
>   First of all, thanks to all of you for all your work
> on ReactOS.
>  
>  Secondly, why reinvent the wheel?
>  
>  Why not simply assure that ReactOS is compatible with WindowBlinds?
>  
>  http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/
>  
>  I'm much more interested in ReactOS having Rock-Solid base functionality...
>  
>  - Printing
>  - Networking
>  - Speed
>  - Compatibility with Apps.
>  
>  Rather than UI eye-candy.
>  
>  That stuff can come later, or by using the many third party skinning 
>  apps for Windows.
>  
>  Thanks!
>  
>  Al
>  
>  
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