I agree about the gamers. I didn't want to blow anyone's fuse by suggesting a gaming interface. Every time I have done so in the past I've seen vapor lock followed by rapid stuttering and eventual crash and burn with something like
I need a knob on my radio I need a knob on my radio I need a knob on my radio... being sputtered in the background as the ground rapidly approached. 73 --- Frank Brickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lee A Crocker wrote: > > > ...simply be a check box on the menu "Casual > User...X" > > ... > > The thing that will propel flex into the future is > its > > flexibility. For example I have a vision of one > day > > being able to deploy 16 receivers in a 192khz > > bandwidth that can do automatic CW decoding... > > A few observations about this, in mock-syllogistic > form. > > (1) If there's as much confusion and contention as > there's been > over something as circumscribed as S-meter > calibration, how could > you expect to find consensus about something as > complex as a > multiple-channel parallel RX/decoder bank function? > The only > answer is to make the radio functionality fully > programmable. > > (2) The "radio" view of the system is wrong. What > we're really > aiming for is an intelligent agent whose sensors are > indefinitely > many software modules, each implementing a > fully-capable radio, > and arbitrarily many control and monitor streams for > the user. The > agent itself is fully programmable *by each user* > for a repertoire > of behaviors based on the needs of the user and the > inputs from > the sensors. Part of the repertoire of behaviors is > the capacity > of the agent to modify its own behavior, ie, adapt > its own > programming. > > (3) Anybody who thinks such a system can be > implemented on a > reasonable FPGA, DSP, or combination of those, is > smoking the > wrong stuff. > > (4) Anybody who thinks the agent functionality can > be split up > between an FPGA- or DSP-based RF front end, and a > general-purpose > CPU backend, has not enough appreciation for the > full-duplex > bandwidth needed between the sensor and agent ends > of such a > system. This is a pure-software creature, living on > a > general-purpose CPU. > > (5) Mice, windows, sliders, and knobs will not > adequately capture > a sufficient control interface for such a system. > The gamers and > the VR folks have a start in the right direction. > > (::) So, that's where we're headed, eventually. Thus > far what > we've got is nothing more than base-level tentative > infrastructure, and some stone knives and bearskin > rugs keeping it > all together. > > 73 > Frank > AB2KT > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
