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Welcome to Interstate Robotics,
Incorporated - developers of visual programming tools, direct device interfacesâ,
reusable software components, hand-held gaming devices, and web appliances.
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| Cyclops is a visual programming tool
providing an alternative to the tedious and arcane tasks associated with
using traditional programming languages. Application programs are created
by drawing box-and-wire diagrams. Boxes represent reusable software components,
wires define their input-output relationships. Visual programming using
reusable software components significantly reduces technical risk, provides
the economies of scale and scope, and partitions the set of problems involved
in application program development into manageable pieces. |
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| Popular operating systems
typically provide application programs with a common interface to physical
devices using three scheduled processes - an API (application program interface),
device driver, and kernel. A DDI (direct device interface) provides
this service using only a single process in order to reduce latency and
computer resource utilization. Furthermore, DDIs provide a means
of dynamically extending Win16S/32S services. Win16S and Win32S are
the lower layers of Windows 3.X and 9.X, respectively, which run in DOS
protected mode independently of the upper layers.
DOS, Win16S, and Win32S are
non-proprietary, communally defined, user-extendible, and shared by a world-wide
network of developers without belonging to anyone. If history
repeats itself, the impact will be similar to when non-proprietary hardware
(the IBM PC) banished proprietary systems (Amega, Commodore, DEC) from
the marketplace.
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