Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Domains

Domain: cuug.ab.ca

Stories and comments across the archive that link to cuug.ab.ca.

Comments · 54

  1. For Further Information... by rbrander · · Score: 3 · on Proper Serial Console Support
    Have a look at the newsletter of the Calgary Unix Users Group, specifically last September's Issue and hit the "PC Weasel Released" article.

    It contains an interview with Herb Peyerl, sometime NetBSD maven and the principal software designer, and some more photos.

    But just a few off-the-cuff comments in response to previous posts:

    • Herb mentioned the price to me a few weeks ago, and I already forgot - but it's in the very low hundreds;
    • Custom ASICs weren't in the budget, that's for sure; cut them some slack, guys, they have to build a market first;
    • The price will drop even before they get the huge volume required for custom ASIC chips; even a fair-sized production run will make a big difference.
    • And as the web page itself points out, they really couldn't believe nobody else did this - they were finally driven to invent it themselves from need!
    All this, and much more, in the interview.
  2. For Further Information... by rbrander · · Score: 3 · on Proper Serial Console Support
    Have a look at the newsletter of the Calgary Unix Users Group, specifically last September's Issue and hit the "PC Weasel Released" article.

    It contains an interview with Herb Peyerl, sometime NetBSD maven and the principal software designer, and some more photos.

    But just a few off-the-cuff comments in response to previous posts:

    • Herb mentioned the price to me a few weeks ago, and I already forgot - but it's in the very low hundreds;
    • Custom ASICs weren't in the budget, that's for sure; cut them some slack, guys, they have to build a market first;
    • The price will drop even before they get the huge volume required for custom ASIC chips; even a fair-sized production run will make a big difference.
    • And as the web page itself points out, they really couldn't believe nobody else did this - they were finally driven to invent it themselves from need!
    All this, and much more, in the interview.
  3. For Further Information... by rbrander · · Score: 3 · on Proper Serial Console Support
    Have a look at the newsletter of the Calgary Unix Users Group, specifically last September's Issue and hit the "PC Weasel Released" article.

    It contains an interview with Herb Peyerl, sometime NetBSD maven and the principal software designer, and some more photos.

    But just a few off-the-cuff comments in response to previous posts:

    • Herb mentioned the price to me a few weeks ago, and I already forgot - but it's in the very low hundreds;
    • Custom ASICs weren't in the budget, that's for sure; cut them some slack, guys, they have to build a market first;
    • The price will drop even before they get the huge volume required for custom ASIC chips; even a fair-sized production run will make a big difference.
    • And as the web page itself points out, they really couldn't believe nobody else did this - they were finally driven to invent it themselves from need!
    All this, and much more, in the interview.
  4. Re:Another AMD user.... by MrGrieves · · Score: 1 · on The Truth About SETI@Home

    > I run on a 450 MHz AMD-K6-2,
    > with the 3d-now! extensions (of course). I can
    > tell you from experience that the FFT that
    > Seti@Home uses routine on an AMD SUCKS. It takes
    > forever to do a single block of data, and I
    > calculated it would eventually take something
    > like 70 hours to complete the block. I was
    > disappointed.

    Wow, 70 hours? I'm running SETI@Home on Linux with an AMD K6-2 450, and according to my handy tk-SETI@Home client, I am averaging 14 hours 55 minutes. Granted, that's not great, but it's not 70 hours, either. 'Course, it may have something to do with my Super7 100 MHz bus and 128 MB RAM, though I am pretty much in the dark as to how the client uses resources... Anyway, I just thought I'd throw in my .02 regarding performance.

    -Chris