Nick Negroponte and his media lab. had a project called "Data Land", where he and his grad students went to Aspen, CO and drove all around, in all seasons, went into every building, every floor and video taped everything they saw. This was all created on video disk platters and you could view this "data base" projected on a wall from a special chair. You could move in three directions through the database... You could select a building from a overhead view, go into the building, go to the next floor, look around and if you selected someone they had taped while there, you could see split-screen, their resume, or whatever. A touch pad on the chair arm allowed tou to change pages. You could even go between buildings on the same floor...
Remember now, this was in 1975. I was there, invited by him, through Foxboro Instruments, as a man-machine interface designer working on nuclear power plant control rooms, to see just what the state of the art was. I was quite humbled, in fact, I still am. The concept was stunning, to say the least.
It seems we should turn off the cell phone when not using it. If you must be contactable at all times, get a one-way numeric pager. You shouldn't be using the cell phone while driving anyway!
Yes, yes... But like writing bits vertically to multi-platter disk drives at the same
head location, only with this thought, it could load registers with addresses, or stack,
or instructions, whatever. Each vertical location, or part of that bit string, could do
something else while the horizontal part is ececuting... I haven't really thought of the
possibilities, but both could execute in chain step, even though they would be on
different physical processors, or devices of any kind for that matter. There is also the
possibility of one of the vertical locations acting like a chip enable pin for address
decoding... or a "processor enable", or a graphic layer enable... More likely, a way to
switch to concurrently running user space... Kind of like the early Control Data Cyber
series machines. As I said, it's just a thought, fleeting as it was. [g]
The recommendations have direct bearing on some of the newer fly-by-wire cars. I have a 2003 Nissan Spec-V and it is all FBW. By experimentation I have found that keeping the RPM's between 2000 and 2500, depending on the gear and speed, I can get up to 33 MPG on the highway... and yes, the ECU does learn your driving habits. Now, if we could just disconnect the black box lie-detector...
a Sun Enterprise 450, with four processors, 4 GBytes of memory and 10 SCSI drives... This is my HOME computer and I don't see that kind of poor performance. Maybe it is time for you to try Ultrix instead of RSX-11, at least you won't have the real-time interrupts bothering you... However, I do like my TRS-80 running NEWDOS-80!
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Remember now, this was in 1975. I was there, invited by him, through Foxboro Instruments, as a man-machine interface designer working on nuclear power plant control rooms, to see just what the state of the art was. I was quite humbled, in fact, I still am. The concept was stunning, to say the least.
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So one could possibly make the registers have a "Z" axis and have "real" 3-D address space. Just a thought...
The recommendations have direct bearing on some of the newer fly-by-wire cars. I have a 2003 Nissan Spec-V and it is all FBW. By experimentation I have found that keeping the RPM's between 2000 and 2500, depending on the gear and speed, I can get up to 33 MPG on the highway... and yes, the ECU does learn your driving habits. Now, if we could just disconnect the black box lie-detector...
a Sun Enterprise 450, with four processors, 4 GBytes of memory and 10 SCSI drives... This is my HOME computer and I don't see that kind of poor performance. Maybe it is time for you to try Ultrix instead of RSX-11, at least you won't have the real-time interrupts bothering you... However, I do like my TRS-80 running NEWDOS-80!
and all this time I thought a myth was a young female moth...
I would rather have a F4B Phantom II, at least you get to take a friend!