Re: The i2o Bus: A Conspiracy Against Free Software? (fwd)
Tim Hollebeek (tim@franck.Princeton.EDU)
Sun, 20 Jul 1997 12:18:52 -0400 (EDT)
Rogier Wolff writes ...
>
> > complete even in the presense of rapid interrupt activity. This should
> > allow a system to run a RT Linux kernel on the i960 which would do fun
> > things like plotting the Mandelbrot set at background priority while
> > controlling IO.
>
> Your pentium is faster at doing that sort of stuff. Did you have a
> Comodore 64? You could do similar things on the processor in the
> disk drive. Calculating Mandelbrots was an ideal application because
> the link between the central CPU and the drive was kind of slow
> (9600 baud as supplied from Comodore).
If you want to do this sort of stuff, use your postscript printer. It
usually has a fairly decent CPU, plenty of memory, and is idle most of
the time ...
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