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Improving Ubuntu's application upload process

Improving Ubuntu's application upload process

Posted Sep 6, 2012 19:07 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Improving Ubuntu's application upload process by Cyberax
Parent article: Improving Ubuntu's application upload process

connecting two CPUs together efficiently is hard, and not something that you are going to do with a docking station (the connector alone will be a large percentage of the size of the mobile device, you aren't just talking about a USB cable or something like that.

Also, a docking station with it's own CPU, memory, etc isn't cheap, but it also already exists (it's called a "desktop computer")

what you seem to be wanting is checkpoint/restore capability to move running applications from one server to another. with the appropriate emulation, the desktop doesn't need to have the same processor architecture that the mobile device has

docking stations are much simpler, they are little more than convienient ways to plug in several devices at once instead of having multiple wires.


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Improving Ubuntu's application upload process

Posted Sep 6, 2012 19:10 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

> connecting two CPUs together efficiently is hard
You don't need to do it. Just migrate all running apps to the docked CPU.

>Also, a docking station with it's own CPU, memory, etc isn't cheap, but it also already exists (it's called a "desktop computer")
Yup, and right now it's not integrated with phones. This is just the next step and it has nice smooth continuity from pads/phones.

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