I thought about moving the work that a flash controller did to an OS, on a game console. Would have saved some money (high tens to low hundreds of millions of d

I thought about moving the work that a flash controller did to an OS, on a game console. Would have saved some money (high tens to low hundreds of millions of dollars over the product lifetime). Just too damned risky and complicated to make work, given the ship schedule. The controllers do a lot of work, and provide a pretty clean abstraction over a bunch of complexity and dirty business under the hood.