Underlying point being that the voltage of the IO's can be different from the Vcc levels, w/ internal chip level shifters. This is done if most of the off-the-shelf components are still at a different voltage than the chip in question
How much storage do you need on a phone? Do you use it to download your movie collection or record your missed TV programs? I can understand if this was about a set top box or even a computer, but a phone?
I quite agree w/ this. I have an iPhone 7, an iPad mini 4 and a Verizon Ellipsis 10. They are the last devices I'll have, unless one either breaks down, or unless I give one of them to my sister, and therefore get a new one. The last couple of upgrades I did to the iToys was due to insufficient storage in both, but now that each has 128GB, I'm good to go. On the Ellipsis, it's still on Lollipop, but I have a 128GB SD card on that. The day I can get either M or N on it, I'd define the SD card as internal memory and the 16GB internal storage as external memory, and I'll be off to the races.
Verizon would have to pre-qualify any phones, and one can't buy an unloaded phone and just add a Verizon SIM to it. Reason being that any Verizon phone, aside from being 4G compatible, needs to be able to fall back on Verizon's 3G/2G services in areas that don't have 4G coverage. Same would be true of Sprint
With Verizon, one's choices are the iPhones, the Pixel, the Galaxies and some Mot models.
Something like 15 years ago, I used to see SIM form factor SD-cards from Sandisk. Since I don't see it anywhere nowadays, from what I can tell, that's been discontinued. Does anyone make it anymore?
I agree w/ the 2nd point. Up to 32GB, it looked like the entire phone storage could be eaten up by the OS. But at 64GB, is there a compelling need for more storage? I only consider an SD card a must have if the main storage is 32GB or below
This!!! Absolutely this! Given that 1/6th of the world's population is in India - a completely tropical country, and big numbers in countries like Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, that makes up those numbers easily. Add up the populations of these countries, tossing in Pakistan & Bangladesh, and one gets 31% of the world's population right there. After that, toss in the population of the countries in the equatorial areas of Africa, such as Congo, and the number easily exceeds it.
Looks to me more like a case of elementary geographical demographics, as opposed to AGW. These areas have been exposed to heat waves as long as I can remember
I really miss the glam metal of the late 80s-early 90s. Guys like Motley Crew, Twisted Sisters, Trixter, Black 'n Blue, Queensryche, Vixen, Ozzy, & so on
I don't own a Mac, but heck, if I'm getting METAL, it might be worth the price
Ain't 3.3V rather old by now, particularly given how low power replaced high performance requirements at least a decade ago? Also, what voltage are chips like RISC-V or ARM? 3.3V?
Actually, they do have serious competition in the CPU market. THEMSELVES. They can't push their shit b'cos their previous shit was so good that nobody needs to replace it. Hence, the need to hunt for new markets.
But another good business plan for Intel might be to become a TSMC or Samsung, and start fabbing chips for Qualcomm and others.
One thing, though: if cost & power are important to IoT, like they usually are to embedded systems, wouldn't they have all moved to at least 3.3V by now? I used to be in the Flash memory business up to 10 years ago, and while we'd initially sell 5V flash, the market moved completely to 3V - from things like PCs to optical drives and the like. I'm surprised to read that Arduino, or any other ARM based embedded system, would still be at 5V, when the rest of the stuff is at 3.3V
By being at 1.8V, Intel may be ahead of the curve, but I recall that it was in the 90s that Steve Fuhber, then of ARM, was quoted in Byte as associating the voltage that a 1.5V battery has when it's near dead - which is 0.9V. So 1.8V - which would be ideal for 1-2 batteries, could support such systems more optimally than the 3.3V. I know that the market moves slowly, but I'm surprised that the embedded market is still at 3.3V, much less 5V.
I think that for IoT, things like RISC-V or OpenRISC might have a chance, since they are open as well. Such systems might be complete FPGAs w/ RISC-V cores in them, in an SoC configuration, which would be usable for IoT purposes.
Not just that, there ain't any added value in having any of the modern CPUs, like Atom, for instance, in such a box. One does not need multiple cores, MMX or SSI instructions, and it helps that the 386 just has some 100+ pins as opposed to 400+ pins. 16 bit is probably inadequate for embedded systems, but 32-bit is perfect, and doesn't need to go 64-bit, which is what modern Intel CPU architectures are.
Incidentally, are all the 386 patents still active, or have they expired? If the latter, any fabless design house could design an SOC in an FPGA using a 386 core, and have something that would be very useful to the market. One thing I'd change though - enable it to support up to 2GB of RAM, and whatever the upper limit was for a 386 based PC. Such a thing, at the low end, could have 1MB of RAM and run FreeDOS, and at the high end, could do, say, a Windows 95 or 98. I won't go so far as to put any NT based OS on this. It could however have either Linux or Minix (is Linux still there in 32-bit? FreeBSD seems to have gone fully 64-bit, w/ no looking behind)
Beaglebone could have been another option. In addition to the usual linux sources, Minix was also ported to it, so that would be a fantastic platform to build on
Right, and in the end, the people who stand up against that 'shit' will all have their throats slit open by Jihadists b'cos they are too 'humane' to do what would actually solve the problem!
In Windows, I've enabled OneDrive, and not only that, I make that my primary storage. Yeah, there's all those cries about privacy, but being able to retrieve my data seamlessly outweighs that. While none of my computers have ever been stolen, I did have a WinBook die on me, so it was very useful to be able to retrieve my stuff from the OneDrive backup.
I do wish such a mechanism existed for things like FreeBSD: dunno about Linux. Have something like an automatic backup to Dropbox (or any cloud storage of one's desire), so that in the event of anything like this, the data can be seamlessly recovered.
You mentioned that very large manufacturers buy up variable length blocks. My idea here was having out of 64 bits, say 8 bits (to allow for 256 ethernet manufacturers worldwide) to have a constant block of addresses. Which they could assign according to their product lines. I don't know if 802.11 shares the same MAC addressing schemes as 802.3, but a company that made both Ethernet and WiFi parts could use different internal schemes to identify the parts. It would also have made autoconfiguration more automatic, as opposed to having EUI-64 (which inserts 0xfffe in the middle), and the end result would have been MAC addresses being more reliably unique than what it is now.
I wasn't thinking so much about the endian conversions or any of that. As it is, EUI-64 in IPv6 is only used in link-local addresses (on this TrueOS system that I'm using). Usually, they'll either use Privacy Extensions, which is what Windows uses, or they'd use RAs. So no, I wasn't thinking about the CPU trying to align 48 bits and 64 bits.
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Underlying point being that the voltage of the IO's can be different from the Vcc levels, w/ internal chip level shifters. This is done if most of the off-the-shelf components are still at a different voltage than the chip in question
How much storage do you need on a phone? Do you use it to download your movie collection or record your missed TV programs? I can understand if this was about a set top box or even a computer, but a phone?
My sister bought a OnePlus 3 b'cos the iPhone 7 was outside her budget.
I quite agree w/ this. I have an iPhone 7, an iPad mini 4 and a Verizon Ellipsis 10. They are the last devices I'll have, unless one either breaks down, or unless I give one of them to my sister, and therefore get a new one. The last couple of upgrades I did to the iToys was due to insufficient storage in both, but now that each has 128GB, I'm good to go. On the Ellipsis, it's still on Lollipop, but I have a 128GB SD card on that. The day I can get either M or N on it, I'd define the SD card as internal memory and the 16GB internal storage as external memory, and I'll be off to the races.
Verizon would have to pre-qualify any phones, and one can't buy an unloaded phone and just add a Verizon SIM to it. Reason being that any Verizon phone, aside from being 4G compatible, needs to be able to fall back on Verizon's 3G/2G services in areas that don't have 4G coverage. Same would be true of Sprint
With Verizon, one's choices are the iPhones, the Pixel, the Galaxies and some Mot models.
I thought these phones have to be bought w/o any contract. In which case, you don't have any more spyware than what Google's built in by design
Aside from that, one can also use Bluetooth. Or back up the phone's files on Google Drive, and then download it to the computer.
Something like 15 years ago, I used to see SIM form factor SD-cards from Sandisk. Since I don't see it anywhere nowadays, from what I can tell, that's been discontinued. Does anyone make it anymore?
I agree w/ the 2nd point. Up to 32GB, it looked like the entire phone storage could be eaten up by the OS. But at 64GB, is there a compelling need for more storage? I only consider an SD card a must have if the main storage is 32GB or below
This!!! Absolutely this! Given that 1/6th of the world's population is in India - a completely tropical country, and big numbers in countries like Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, that makes up those numbers easily. Add up the populations of these countries, tossing in Pakistan & Bangladesh, and one gets 31% of the world's population right there. After that, toss in the population of the countries in the equatorial areas of Africa, such as Congo, and the number easily exceeds it.
Looks to me more like a case of elementary geographical demographics, as opposed to AGW. These areas have been exposed to heat waves as long as I can remember
I really miss the glam metal of the late 80s-early 90s. Guys like Motley Crew, Twisted Sisters, Trixter, Black 'n Blue, Queensryche, Vixen, Ozzy, & so on
I don't own a Mac, but heck, if I'm getting METAL, it might be worth the price
Can't this Ethiopian tree be replanted in a cooler place, such as Russia, so that it won't continue to suffer the hotter & drier weather?
At that time, the CPU was a bunch of chips, known collectively as the RS/6000.
Other thing I was wondering - are Xeon CPUs used for all of these, or something else, like POWER 8?
Ain't 3.3V rather old by now, particularly given how low power replaced high performance requirements at least a decade ago? Also, what voltage are chips like RISC-V or ARM? 3.3V?
Actually, they do have serious competition in the CPU market. THEMSELVES. They can't push their shit b'cos their previous shit was so good that nobody needs to replace it. Hence, the need to hunt for new markets.
But another good business plan for Intel might be to become a TSMC or Samsung, and start fabbing chips for Qualcomm and others.
One thing, though: if cost & power are important to IoT, like they usually are to embedded systems, wouldn't they have all moved to at least 3.3V by now? I used to be in the Flash memory business up to 10 years ago, and while we'd initially sell 5V flash, the market moved completely to 3V - from things like PCs to optical drives and the like. I'm surprised to read that Arduino, or any other ARM based embedded system, would still be at 5V, when the rest of the stuff is at 3.3V
By being at 1.8V, Intel may be ahead of the curve, but I recall that it was in the 90s that Steve Fuhber, then of ARM, was quoted in Byte as associating the voltage that a 1.5V battery has when it's near dead - which is 0.9V. So 1.8V - which would be ideal for 1-2 batteries, could support such systems more optimally than the 3.3V. I know that the market moves slowly, but I'm surprised that the embedded market is still at 3.3V, much less 5V.
I think that for IoT, things like RISC-V or OpenRISC might have a chance, since they are open as well. Such systems might be complete FPGAs w/ RISC-V cores in them, in an SoC configuration, which would be usable for IoT purposes.
Not just that, there ain't any added value in having any of the modern CPUs, like Atom, for instance, in such a box. One does not need multiple cores, MMX or SSI instructions, and it helps that the 386 just has some 100+ pins as opposed to 400+ pins. 16 bit is probably inadequate for embedded systems, but 32-bit is perfect, and doesn't need to go 64-bit, which is what modern Intel CPU architectures are.
Incidentally, are all the 386 patents still active, or have they expired? If the latter, any fabless design house could design an SOC in an FPGA using a 386 core, and have something that would be very useful to the market. One thing I'd change though - enable it to support up to 2GB of RAM, and whatever the upper limit was for a 386 based PC. Such a thing, at the low end, could have 1MB of RAM and run FreeDOS, and at the high end, could do, say, a Windows 95 or 98. I won't go so far as to put any NT based OS on this. It could however have either Linux or Minix (is Linux still there in 32-bit? FreeBSD seems to have gone fully 64-bit, w/ no looking behind)
Beaglebone could have been another option. In addition to the usual linux sources, Minix was also ported to it, so that would be a fantastic platform to build on
... that voted to legalize marijuana. Not just medininal marijuana, but any marijuana - be it medicinal or recreational.
So if this prop passes, it would be legal to snort pot, but not legal for a kid to have a smart phone?
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Right, and in the end, the people who stand up against that 'shit' will all have their throats slit open by Jihadists b'cos they are too 'humane' to do what would actually solve the problem!
In Windows, I've enabled OneDrive, and not only that, I make that my primary storage. Yeah, there's all those cries about privacy, but being able to retrieve my data seamlessly outweighs that. While none of my computers have ever been stolen, I did have a WinBook die on me, so it was very useful to be able to retrieve my stuff from the OneDrive backup.
I do wish such a mechanism existed for things like FreeBSD: dunno about Linux. Have something like an automatic backup to Dropbox (or any cloud storage of one's desire), so that in the event of anything like this, the data can be seamlessly recovered.
I used to read Bob Metcalfe's articles in InfoWorld. They used to be some of the most insightful opinions in that magazine.
You mentioned that very large manufacturers buy up variable length blocks. My idea here was having out of 64 bits, say 8 bits (to allow for 256 ethernet manufacturers worldwide) to have a constant block of addresses. Which they could assign according to their product lines. I don't know if 802.11 shares the same MAC addressing schemes as 802.3, but a company that made both Ethernet and WiFi parts could use different internal schemes to identify the parts. It would also have made autoconfiguration more automatic, as opposed to having EUI-64 (which inserts 0xfffe in the middle), and the end result would have been MAC addresses being more reliably unique than what it is now.
I wasn't thinking so much about the endian conversions or any of that. As it is, EUI-64 in IPv6 is only used in link-local addresses (on this TrueOS system that I'm using). Usually, they'll either use Privacy Extensions, which is what Windows uses, or they'd use RAs. So no, I wasn't thinking about the CPU trying to align 48 bits and 64 bits.