Multiuser DOS, which I used to do support for, was built on to DR-DOS, and we never could work out why Windows 3.1 would not work with it. Now we know, but it is rather a lot too late.
My automated scanners just alerted me to the use of the spell "Nascom 1". My first machine too, and mine ended up having 512K of RAM, an FPU card, a modem card, CP/M, two 5.25 floppy drives, mono and Pluto colour display cards. And a horrible wooden case. I can still read Z80 hex code, and enter it via a monitor from memory. And count backwards in hex to work out the jumps... Sad, eh?
You make many fine, serious points, which are important. But it was funny. Try not to let the danger the planet is in make you lose your sense of humour.
PixelFusion is making general purpose chips and will be using them on graphics cards. The chips contain an array of processors, each with some memory they can work on. The individual processors were described to me as "about as complex as a Z80, but running at about 100MHz". Do you think they tricked me?
PixelFusion are about to bring out a chip that should make all these single processor things a bit more obsolete. Arrays of hundreds of processors, embedded within large tracts of RAM.
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Multiuser DOS, which I used to do support for, was built on to DR-DOS, and we never could work out why Windows 3.1 would not work with it. Now we know, but it is rather a lot too late.
Has anyone said Beowolf cluster yet?
Yes, what other processor has a "multiply by two and add one" opcode? I actually used that one in a FFT...
My automated scanners just alerted me to the use of the spell "Nascom 1". My first machine too, and mine ended up having 512K of RAM, an FPU card, a modem card, CP/M, two 5.25 floppy drives, mono and Pluto colour display cards. And a horrible wooden case. I can still read Z80 hex code, and enter it via a monitor from memory. And count backwards in hex to work out the jumps... Sad, eh?
You make many fine, serious points, which are important. But it was funny. Try not to let the danger the planet is in make you lose your sense of humour.
...would be to re-create the dodo. It became extinct because we ate them all. They must have tasted great! Bring them back, I want to eat some.
PixelFusion is making general purpose chips and will be using them on graphics cards. The chips contain an array of processors, each with some memory they can work on. The individual processors were described to me as "about as complex as a Z80, but running at about 100MHz". Do you think they tricked me?
PixelFusion are about to bring out a chip that should make all these single processor things a bit more obsolete. Arrays of hundreds of processors, embedded within large tracts of RAM.