god bless the Massachusetts dems. i am in a minority of/.ers, in that i can respect my elected leaders. they really have it quite together; my past letters of concern to the Reps and Senators have each come back with the reply i wanted to hear.
aside from liquor stores not being open on Sunday, i like this state.:)
sure, it's nice that there's a software ARM emulator knocking around the internet, but it's in no way a substitute for a free processor core design, with which you may fabricate hardware ARM clones.
Here is the story of how a Chinese grad student developed the ARM7. this looks like yet another case of the Chinese government meatheads forcibly repressing free speech and damaging the natural development of Chinese culture.
remind me why the US still deals with the People's Republic?
the idea of FPGA computing has been around for a little while at least (look here for examples). i think Scientific American even wrote about "configurable computers" in 1997 or so. why aren't they more popular, then?
modern processors are well-adapted to general computing tasks.
FPGAs (read: custom iron) might be good for a few specialized tasks (breaking 3DES, for instance), but most of us will be a lot happier on our UltraSparcs and Athlons and G4s.
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god bless the Massachusetts dems. i am in a minority of /.ers, in that i can respect my elected leaders. they really have it quite together; my past letters of concern to the Reps and Senators have each come back with the reply i wanted to hear.
:)
aside from liquor stores not being open on Sunday, i like this state.
long live the global network
sure, it's nice that there's a software ARM emulator knocking around the internet, but it's in no way a substitute for a free processor core design, with which you may fabricate hardware ARM clones.
Here is the story of how a Chinese grad student developed the ARM7. this looks like yet another case of the Chinese government meatheads forcibly repressing free speech and damaging the natural development of Chinese culture.
remind me why the US still deals with the People's Republic?
the idea of FPGA computing has been around for a little while at least (look here for examples). i think Scientific American even wrote about "configurable computers" in 1997 or so. why aren't they more popular, then?
modern processors are well-adapted to general computing tasks.
FPGAs (read: custom iron) might be good for a few specialized tasks (breaking 3DES, for instance), but most of us will be a lot happier on our UltraSparcs and Athlons and G4s.