The heck with Linux: put a Java VM on the sucker and base the OS directly on that. With memory to match the speed, I bet I could do some real-time vision processing that would blow anything I've seen out of the water. Maybe next year. :) > Wow. Uh.... Wow. Now, that sounds like the basis for one heck of a > Linux box. So, is there a C compiler in progress for this thing? > > If the cost per weren't prohibitively expensive (assuming $14k for > 25, that's $560, which is too much for me to pay for a chip for > myself. And prices likely are higher for unit quantities) for me, > personally, I'd say I'd get one just to experiment with :) > > - --Brendan > > > >From another list (a rocketry one ! :-) ). > > Thought people may be intertested where things MAY be going. > > > > RM > > > > __________________________________________ > > > > > > I don't know if anyone has looked at Chuck Moore's controller chip > > design but its pretty wild. He claims he can get you the part in > > lots of 25 for $14k (and that was around a year ago). The > > integrated system weight and power consumption are very low even at > > 60 Gips (of course a lot of that could go to waste without some > > difficult programming). Forth is a drawback (unless you like Forth > > and I admit to having a Forth problem) or you are doing assembly > > programming anyway. > > > > http://www.colorforth.com/25x.html > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use > > iQA/AwUBPThP3wVk8xtQuK+BEQKnnwCghZZNSIXnCd/nTqrkZJb3hG6emyoAoMce > iWsWUdvB1vRpZzHaon+ucgXW > =BpKO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > -- D. Jay Newman ! Live fast, jay@sprucegrove.com ! Die young, http://www.sprucegrove.com/~jay/ ! And leave a flesh eating corpse! -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body