peripherals

These won't even need browser plugins or peripherals because the technology will be accessible to software directly.

Linux/Windows/the BSDs contain quite a bit of code to support: - Lots of different hardware and peripherals, some legacy (i.e.

Yep, there are a lot of strange peripherals attached to computers that are no longer supported.

It's not surprising it lacks support for hard peripherals at this point in development.

Is there really a group of users whose single device is a phone and they want to connect that to PC-style peripherals?

Hacking hardware peripherals designed for other computers to make them work on the Amiga.

Many embedded systems still use them, and they're found in SoC form in various peripherals - my mouse has one, for example.

It's a particular favourite what with being an ex-Data General field engineer (maintained and fixed Nova 3/4 and Eclipse S/130/140's and associated peripherals).

The makers of CoreMark have tried to come out with a benchmark[2], but it doesn't cover peripherals yet and isn't quite as popular.

A lot peripherals will just work without having to install new drivers.

Okay, that's a wrong example since we're limited by our eyes - the peripherals/sensing devices.

A performance penalty and kernel memory management complexity comes from peripherals and kernel's inability to directly address all memory and resulting need for bounce buffers.

This is pretty relevant: "When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, it was producing a random array of computers and peripherals, including a dozen different versions of the Macintosh.

When you open up "Device Manager" you'll see a bunch of specialized USB and PCI/PCIe peripherals that make up the actual measurement function and user-interface.