Messages in this thread | | | From | (Tim Hollebeek) | Subject | Re: The i2o Bus: A Conspiracy Against Free Software? (fwd) | Date | Sun, 20 Jul 1997 12:18:52 -0400 (EDT) |
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Rogier Wolff writes ... > > > complete even in the presense of rapid interrupt activity. This should > > allow a system to run a RT Linux kernel on the i960 which would do fun > > things like plotting the Mandelbrot set at background priority while > > controlling IO. > > Your pentium is faster at doing that sort of stuff. Did you have a > Comodore 64? You could do similar things on the processor in the > disk drive. Calculating Mandelbrots was an ideal application because > the link between the central CPU and the drive was kind of slow > (9600 baud as supplied from Comodore).
If you want to do this sort of stuff, use your postscript printer. It usually has a fairly decent CPU, plenty of memory, and is idle most of the time ...
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