On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:52:01PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
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OpenRISC demo: Monday, December 15, 2003, 7pm
On Monday, December 15, at 7pm, OpenCores developer Damjan Lampret will give the first public demonstration of an all-Open Source System-On-Chip (SoC) right here at the Freedom Technology Center.
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It's in California... damn!
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This certainly isn't a "barn-burner" as far as performance goes; it's no 3GHz Itanic, but then I wouldn't much want the latter, either.
If a system was available at a reasonable price, I'd buy one for sure, even though it be somewhat wimpy.
Me too. In fact, 99% of people woudn't notice if their computer was swapped with regular 386DX running 1GHz.
Drew Sullivan keeps telling tales about "upgrading" by putting in systems with the slowest CPUs he can find, but with reasonably snappy disk drives, which leaves everyone happy. Doubtless anyone that looks at specs would be _appalled_ if they discovered that someone was installing servers with any less than the highest number of GHz, but realistically, though, they probably wouldn't know how many instructions a second those CPUs _truly_ execute. (After all, it's not 1 cycle per instruction...) -- output = reverse("moc.enworbbc" "@" "enworbbc") http://cbbrowne.com/info/wp.html Despite the high cost of living, it remains very popular. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml