And unfortunately it's not Rudy Ray Moore either. Else, he'd have been dismissed with "Man, move over and let me pass 'fore they have be to pullin' these Hush Puppies out your m-f-'in a**!"
http://opencores.org/ has everything you need to make a general purpose computing SOC, including USB and video. The only thing this project needs that's missing on this site is a wireless MAC.
Everybody vs. fluorescent lamps is too large of a sample set with too many unknowns to draw a good conclusion from. There are a lot of things that were popularized over the same period of time that are also now known carcinogens (mass-produced cigarettes, plastics that leach toxins, pesticides, radium painted watch dials, and more). Interestingly enough, the old, dirty ballasts you mention were not only electromagnetically dirty, but they were often filled with PCBs as many transformers were during the time. In addition, fluorescent tubes have been using less and less mercury in their manufacture over the years, while improved electrode life keeps both the mercury and the phosphors (which are also biologically nasty) out of landfills and in service.
True, which makes this an even wonkier solution. Sharing the memory bandwidth (through whatever means) can't be healthy for the performance for either the host or the PC.
IIRC the Mac->PC cards didn't even use the onboard video. They had a loopback cable between the system video and the PC card, and a built-in analog MUX would switch the video out lines between the Mac and the PC's raster.
Apple sold compatibility cards for the early PPCs up to early PCI machines. Most were 486sx-ish contraptions, and literally gave you a second machine running in parallel with the Mac. This was to shore up the "not pc compatible" sentiment during the PPC rollout.
Applied Engineering even sold a 8086 compatibility card for the//e and GS, and IIRC there was a//e compatibility card for some of the NuBus Macs.
OTOH, this is just dumb, especially in light of the recently posted article on sub-$300 PCs.
Now, maybe I'm sharing my opinions too freely here... but don't you think that listening to an architect of the P4 decry OOP is like a designer on the Ford Pinto speak out against putting gas tanks in the back of cars? True, a big honkin OOP mechanism is probably not the best use of die space, since compiler scheduling is getting pretty good these days, but let's not forget the Itanium "let the compiler do ALL the work" mess...
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We already have zoom. It involves moving either your eye closer to the object or the object closer to your eye. Try it. It's amazing!
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Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man.
And unfortunately it's not Rudy Ray Moore either. Else, he'd have been dismissed with "Man, move over and let me pass 'fore they have be to pullin' these Hush Puppies out your m-f-'in a**!"
do they still get cancer?
http://opencores.org/ has everything you need to make a general purpose computing SOC, including USB and video. The only thing this project needs that's missing on this site is a wireless MAC.
Of course. Because, you know, the only two operating systems that a supercomputer could possibly run are Linux and Windows.
Show the posters a little RLC or else they'll be overreactive and head to the bar to get tanked.
Thanks. Now please make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater.
The **AA might just manage to plug the Analog Hole, but /. will never plug the Dupe Hole.
Sucker.
I can hear it now (apologies to any elderly nerdettes out there):
./configure; make, sudo to root, then make install.
"Grandma, simply unpack the tarball, run
C'mon, don't unpack it in your home directory! Don't you store all of your source-built apps somewhere?
No, Grandma, you forgot to install the header packages for GTK. But it's so easy! Why do you have to make this so difficult?!
Fine. Go watch your stories. I'll have it finished by the time Matlock is over."
The next model also requires a steady hand.
Look at all the different units! WoaHHs, PatEoTSs, even um!
I believe you meant um&m. As in, "The robot measures 500um&m in length."
If you're afraid of it being stolen, I don't believe that the RAID is going to help you.
Everybody vs. fluorescent lamps is too large of a sample set with too many unknowns to draw a good conclusion from. There are a lot of things that were popularized over the same period of time that are also now known carcinogens (mass-produced cigarettes, plastics that leach toxins, pesticides, radium painted watch dials, and more). Interestingly enough, the old, dirty ballasts you mention were not only electromagnetically dirty, but they were often filled with PCBs as many transformers were during the time. In addition, fluorescent tubes have been using less and less mercury in their manufacture over the years, while improved electrode life keeps both the mercury and the phosphors (which are also biologically nasty) out of landfills and in service.
I was originally going to reply with a link to the 80's He-Man movie, then I ran into this . Truly frightening.
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...in 5...4...3...2...1
NASA will be spanked with moon rocks. On the moon.
Stop Davey. Stop. I'm... I'm afraid....
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
True, which makes this an even wonkier solution. Sharing the memory bandwidth (through whatever means) can't be healthy for the performance for either the host or the PC.
IIRC the Mac->PC cards didn't even use the onboard video. They had a loopback cable between the system video and the PC card, and a built-in analog MUX would switch the video out lines between the Mac and the PC's raster.
Apple sold compatibility cards for the early PPCs up to early PCI machines. Most were 486sx-ish contraptions, and literally gave you a second machine running in parallel with the Mac. This was to shore up the "not pc compatible" sentiment during the PPC rollout.
//e and GS, and IIRC there was a //e compatibility card for some of the NuBus Macs.
Applied Engineering even sold a 8086 compatibility card for the
OTOH, this is just dumb, especially in light of the recently posted article on sub-$300 PCs.
Now, maybe I'm sharing my opinions too freely here... but don't you think that listening to an architect of the P4 decry OOP is like a designer on the Ford Pinto speak out against putting gas tanks in the back of cars? True, a big honkin OOP mechanism is probably not the best use of die space, since compiler scheduling is getting pretty good these days, but let's not forget the Itanium "let the compiler do ALL the work" mess...
...but there are molecule-sized chemicals in your blood! In fact, one of them, dihydrogen monoxide, has been known to kill thousands of people a year!