They had the Venture Star shuttle design for years. I swear I saw the same damn documentary once, and then again 5 years later. Looks like no one's really serious about it.
From what I hear, Alpha chips were designed to handle emulation seamlessly by loading 100% of the emulated CPU's register set into the chip itself. All that has to be done is a few redirects to the soft set, and bingo, you have an emulated CPU at MAYBE a 15% performance penalty. Not bad, considering the Alpha is at least 4 times faster than existing Pentium II/Xeon processors at comparable clock rates.
BTW - FX32 isn't a Windows emulation system. It only emulates the Intel processor core. NT itself does all of the software work.
Since the Rio has a firmware revision that you can check by pushing a few buttons, I'm assuming that it's a relatively general-purpose DSP they're using, and all it would require is a firmware update. But they could have also soldered the firmware chip into the unit, and decided against a flash-rom. So who knows?
MP3 recorders/players are variable bitrate, unlike Minidisc, which insists upon using their proprietary codec and stereo or mono at a set bitrate. Just look on the back of a Rio box, it says you can fit 9+ hours on 32 megs at 16Khz, which is pretty good for voice. So, I'm assuming you can put at least 10+ hours on the YEPP at the same bitrate, seeing that it has 40 MB.
And, when you're finished, just transfer all of the data back to your computer, and clear the memory. Simple.:)
I think people need to realize that there is MUCH more to the computer industry than than the consumer market. YES, FireWire is a nice alternative to SCSI for a large number of devices. And yes, I'll be one of the first people to note that SCSI has many many issues, and will be phased out eventually. But, let me be the one to tell you right now that the industry has absolutely NO interest in making hard-drives for the FireWire architecture. It is GREAT for digital cameras and high bandwidth applications, but is NOT tested in hard-disk storage to the extent of SCSI and FibreChannel. FibreChannel was conceived to be the replacement to SCSI, and the industry has placed too much time and money into its conception to abandon it so readily, as some suggest. So, as it would be nice to have one standard interface for all computer devices, I seriously doubt it will be FireWire, but, rather something yet to be conceived.
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They had the Venture Star shuttle design for years. I swear I saw the same damn documentary once, and then again 5 years later. Looks like no one's really serious about it.
From what I hear, Alpha chips were designed to handle emulation seamlessly by loading 100% of the emulated CPU's register set into the chip itself. All that has to be done is a few redirects to the soft set, and bingo, you have an emulated CPU at MAYBE a 15% performance penalty. Not bad, considering the Alpha is at least 4 times faster than existing Pentium II/Xeon processors at comparable clock rates.
BTW - FX32 isn't a Windows emulation system. It only emulates the Intel processor core. NT itself does all of the software work.
Since the Rio has a firmware revision that you can check by pushing a few buttons, I'm assuming that it's a relatively general-purpose DSP they're using, and all it would require is a firmware update. But they could have also soldered the firmware chip into the unit, and decided against a flash-rom. So who knows?
Ooops... I meant 16kbps. :)
MP3 recorders/players are variable bitrate, unlike Minidisc, which insists upon using their proprietary codec and stereo or mono at a set bitrate. Just look on the back of a Rio box, it says you can fit 9+ hours on 32 megs at 16Khz, which is pretty good for voice. So, I'm assuming you can put at least 10+ hours on the YEPP at the same bitrate, seeing that it has 40 MB.
:)
And, when you're finished, just transfer all of the data back to your computer, and clear the memory. Simple.
http://www.samsungelectronics.com/news/cgi-bin/sec news.cgi?app=print&key=221&
:)
Try this one.. seems to be informative... and in English
I think people need to realize that there is MUCH more to the computer industry than than the consumer market. YES, FireWire is a nice alternative to SCSI for a large number of devices. And yes, I'll be one of the first people to note that SCSI has many many issues, and will be phased out eventually.
But, let me be the one to tell you right now that the industry has absolutely NO interest in making hard-drives for the FireWire architecture. It is GREAT for digital cameras and high bandwidth applications, but is NOT tested in hard-disk storage to the extent of SCSI and FibreChannel.
FibreChannel was conceived to be the replacement to SCSI, and the industry has placed too much time and money into its conception to abandon it so readily, as some suggest. So, as it would be nice to have one standard interface for all computer devices, I seriously doubt it will be FireWire, but, rather something yet to be conceived.
Thanks for your time
John Ehn
Ehn Consulting