Hi Robert, Sigh...
Well belive it or not before Andy Grove and Bill Noyce put a time line on Grosch's Law, parallel processing was a big deal. Figuring out how to efficiently make use of parallel processors was an equally big or bigger deal. Eventually a guy named R. L. Denniston began to emerge as a primary disciple of functional programing which does appear be the best way to efficiently use MIMD architectures. Interestingly, just as functional programming was gaining steam, the Intel crowd put Grosch's law on a three year time line. Parallel processing and functional programming became a academic issue. Now with little fanfare the three year version of Grosch's aphorism has hit the wall. Once the blood and dust of the collision settled, guess what? The parallel processing and functional programming phoenix rose from it's ashes. I've lived to long! Yes functional programing is the best solution to programming MIMD architectures. And yes, unless someone figures out how to implement the general form of Maxwell's equations in ECAD, Microsoft will develop Functional C# or what ever they choose to call it. To go with Functional C they will develop Functional Windows. This will come sooner than later. Yes it's fun to play with Linux and Erlang. Yes L & E will provide a lot of understanding for the inevitable programming of PowerSDR in Functional C for Functional Windows. In the mean time please for the sake of us FlexRadio supports don't get confused about the end result. Also, please don't start a lot of rumors which might limit a budding market. Sincerely vy 73's Rob AB7CF On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:58:29 -0500 Robert McGwier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alan NV8A wrote: > > On 12/23/07 01:36 pm Tim Ellison wrote: > > > >> You will not always get the "Found new hardware" message. > Particularly if the device driver is already registered with > Windows. > >> > >> The FLEX-5000 hardware is registered as a sound device under > Windows. Windows wouldn't know a radio if it jumped up and slapped > Billy G. in the face. (which is one of the many reasons why the next > version of the software will not have Windows as the primary OS for > running the radio) > > > > You mean I'll be able to dump Windozzze and use Linux on my shack > > > computer!? How about being able to compile the source code for > "The OS > > for which Windows was merely a placeholder" (= IBM's OS/2, still > alive, > > -- despite IBM's best efforts -- well, and ever improving -- > thanks in > > no small part to dedicated programmers in Russia and Ukraine -- at > > > www.ecomstation.com)? > > > > 73 > > > > Alan NV8A > > > That is the goal and using parallels or bootcamp on OSX or KVM/QEMU > on > Linux will get you the windows support needed for legacy > applications. > You will regret not having a Core 2 processor if you intend running > Windows on KVM on Linux. My Linux machine running Windows XP SP2 > under > KVM/QEMU and using VS 2003 compiles powersdr faster than my P4 HT > running XP! Alas, there is no serious IO MMU hardware yet so > things > like firewire and usb are not or poorly supported respectively. > The > device cannot magically appear in KVM/QEMU in the "right place" and > owned by the guest yet. But it is clear, this is coming. Soon, we > will > not be having this argument. You will seamlessly run whatever you > want > to WITHOUT having to dual or even triple boot. > > But full and complete support of what is coming down the road many > moons > out will require an eventual migration of some of the work to a > Linux > machine. Just not tomorrow or next month. > > Bob > > > > -- > AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, > TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair > An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why > must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Descartes > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
