On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 09:19 -0700, dave wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 12:05 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: > > Don Stanley said, in part: ... snip > Old, "un-improved" > > Pentiums end up looking very good when your foremost goal is consistent, > > low latency. ... snip > Good post. Sorry to have snipped so much of it but... > All of the above is what makes the ARM/Beagle-board port so attractive. > We don't need blazing speed, just blazing interrupt response and context > switching. > > Dave
I tend to think, what is made in the millions that closely does what I need and can be modified to the task. I wonder if maybe a car engine or appliance controller could be used for EMC2. My guess is that it would be hard to hack the software on these, but the idea is that with the proper conditions, they could be had for free, or low cost. Though these controllers don,t have user interfaces, so a remote interface would need to be developed too. Probably the best bang for the buck is to dumpster dive for an older ATX PC. If you collect enough of them, one is bound to work. With my EMC2 PC's, I usually need to fiddle with the xorg.conf quite a bit so, getting intimate and spending quality time with this file and the troubleshooting section of the wiki is getting to be a requirement. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
