On Friday, February 18, 2011 11:36:38 am andy pugh did opine: > On 18 February 2011 18:13, gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > <http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2011021800135OPBZHW> > > I find it amazing that a tiny bunch of folk in Cambridge (not the > Massechusetts one) can corner such a huge proportion of the mobile CPU > market. > It is fascinating to think that the whole think was given a huge boost > by the BBC. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers
I do not seem to be able to make the connection between the Acorn people, and the cpu currently named the Intel Atom. Most assuredly there has to be some shared DNA, but I'd suspect that is largely serendipitous given the widespread usage of the fabrication technology itself, and only limited contributions obtained by Intel's hiring of some Acorn/ARM seasoned personnel over the years. I posted this link in the hopes that by the time I get a round tuit and build my next machine, there may be an Atom-like cpu and motherboard on the emc radar that will not be subject to the whims of bean counters because it will already have carved out a solid small slot of multi-year usage in some other high volume usage. Lets face it, we have a unique a set of requirements for real time control that is not well served by the makers because our nitch simply isn't big enough to be of serious interests to TPTB looking at the global market picture. I would not be at all surprised to see the board makers cutting their losses so quickly that the last DM510/5XX board has already been assembled. Those who have a home for 4 or 5 of them really should be looking for the inevitable fire sales that generally accompany such a market shift. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness. -- James Thurber ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
