Hey, some studies have shown that moderate (like, 1 drink a day) beer intake helps you grow new brain cells. Kinda like those other studies that show that moderate red wine drinking is good for your heart.
(Still waiting for a study that shows that pr0n boosts immune function or something though.)
The MSP430, for example, a relatively recent microcontroller designed to have low power draw (microwatts), can be used with two crystals: a fast one and a slow one. The slow one is usually a 32kHz watch crystal.
Lots of microcontroller systems will completely halt their clock when they're not doing anything (say, between keystrokes). It takes a while to start up again, but in many applications you can afford to wait tens of milliseconds for the system to respond to an event.
Stop off in Seattle and you can pick up a certified organic implosion-type bomb with Pu derived only from ecologically sound mining practices, and explosive lenses with low VOC content and no environmental oestrogens!
Well, see gEDA for GPL electronic design automation software. In particular, they've been putting some development work into updating pcb, which has been around since the dawn of time. I've used pcb to make a few boards, it definitely has that late-80's X11-Athena feel to it but it's quite versatile once you get used to it.
For dirt cheap PCB fabbing for hobbyists, check out sparkfun's pcb pooling offer. There are also a lot of hobbyist-friendly PCB prototyping services out there, but they're mostly catering to actual engineering shops even if they don't mind working with hobbyists.
Linux? Sure. The "PPE" portion of the Cell is a POWER64, which Linux already runs on. The "SPE" engines are effectively going to need their own kind of OS to manage them, but you could start with a mostly-user-space API and move it into the Linux kernel after people have figured out what that OS should really look like. This is all new stuff.
Looking at the CELL architecture overview, though, the Cell doesn't look to me like a desktop replacement. It looks like a video card replacement. Think about it: the biggest piece of closed-source, proprietary hardware in your PC right now is your video card, with its sekrit interfaces and binary-only drivers. We're already starting to see a movement towards more general-purpose use of that hardware with things like nVidia's Cg toolkit. The CELL is the logical next step in that direction. You'll have a video card that runs Linux (or, ideally, a video card that acts as just another (heterogeneous) processor in your system).
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The softfield thingy looks pretty neat. Beats the hell out of getting a cheap Palm clone and running CLinux on it.
Yeah, we wouldn't want to have any geeky, nerdy references on a "news for nerds" site.
Here ya go: Coral cache link to eclipse.org
Hey, some studies have shown that moderate (like, 1 drink a day) beer intake helps you grow new brain cells. Kinda like those other studies that show that moderate red wine drinking is good for your heart.
(Still waiting for a study that shows that pr0n boosts immune function or something though.)
The MSP430, for example, a relatively recent microcontroller designed to have low power draw (microwatts), can be used with two crystals: a fast one and a slow one. The slow one is usually a 32kHz watch crystal. Lots of microcontroller systems will completely halt their clock when they're not doing anything (say, between keystrokes). It takes a while to start up again, but in many applications you can afford to wait tens of milliseconds for the system to respond to an event.
Reflections on Trusting Trust , Ken Thompson's Turing Award speech.
64K is plenty of address space. Remember there were viruses for the Apple ][.
Stop off in Seattle and you can pick up a certified organic implosion-type bomb with Pu derived only from ecologically sound mining practices, and explosive lenses with low VOC content and no environmental oestrogens!
Well, see gEDA for GPL electronic design automation software. In particular, they've been putting some development work into updating pcb, which has been around since the dawn of time. I've used pcb to make a few boards, it definitely has that late-80's X11-Athena feel to it but it's quite versatile once you get used to it.
For dirt cheap PCB fabbing for hobbyists, check out sparkfun's pcb pooling offer. There are also a lot of hobbyist-friendly PCB prototyping services out there, but they're mostly catering to actual engineering shops even if they don't mind working with hobbyists.
Linux? Sure. The "PPE" portion of the Cell is a POWER64, which Linux already runs on. The "SPE" engines are effectively going to need their own kind of OS to manage them, but you could start with a mostly-user-space API and move it into the Linux kernel after people have figured out what that OS should really look like. This is all new stuff.
Looking at the CELL architecture overview, though, the Cell doesn't look to me like a desktop replacement. It looks like a video card replacement. Think about it: the biggest piece of closed-source, proprietary hardware in your PC right now is your video card, with its sekrit interfaces and binary-only drivers. We're already starting to see a movement towards more general-purpose use of that hardware with things like nVidia's Cg toolkit. The CELL is the logical next step in that direction. You'll have a video card that runs Linux (or, ideally, a video card that acts as just another (heterogeneous) processor in your system).