On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:31 PM, K6JEK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I fought Moore's law bravely for over thirty years and
> thought I had the hardware guys on their knees most of the time. But
> now maybe they've finally got the lead. Dang.
:-) And a noble campaign it was, old soldier!
They'r
Have the hardware guys won? I spent my whole career in software. I
figured my job was to make enough software that even with the
advances in hardware whatever it was you wanted to do was still
slow. I fought Moore's law bravely for over thirty years and
thought I had the hardware guys
: Re: [Flexradio] [OT] Mac mini as PowerSDR machine
A PDP-8? Brings back awful memories of tons of hours I spent wire wrapping
in 1971! We were going to computerize a rotogravure printing press. But
snip -
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FlexRadio Syst
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Peter G. Viscarola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I spent some time looking this up (Google being my friend)... the Cray-1
> was widely reported as being capable of 100-200 MFlops/second.
Not just speed. Memory was awfully short too, by current standards. 1
megawo
al purpose machines.
Eric
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>
>A Cray-1 ain't *nearly*
>
>A Cray-1 ain't *nearly* enough machine to run it, sad to say.
>
Now THAT's interesting. I LOVE the comparisons between the old gear I
used to use and that we thought was so fast with the ordinary PCs we
take for granted daily.
MAN, I remember being AMAZED by the speed of the Cray-1 back in t
nnections! And try
to keep in mind that I'm a chemist, not an EE.
73
Lee K9WRU
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From: "K6JEK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FlexRadio Reflector"
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 1:39 AM
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:39 PM, K6JEK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> They have a
> Cray 1. If they'd fire it up, maybe we could get a chunk of the
> Flex software running on it. Wouldn't that be a kick?
A Cray-1 ain't *nearly* enough machine to run it, sad to say. And, speaking
as one of the
e, those who can count to 1010 on their
> fingers,
> and those who count to 11.
>
>
>
>
> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] namens Mike Naruta
> Verzonden: ma 18-8-2008 15:24
> Aan: Brian Lloyd; FlexRadio
> Onderwerp: Re: [Flexradio] [OT] Mac mini as Powe
>
> There was a floating point module you could plug into the Unibus. I
> had one on my 11/34. We used it in a simulation for tracking solar
> charged particles when they interacted with various planetary
> magentospheres.
Do you realize that the PDP-11 Floating Point Processor was considered so
On Aug 18, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Mike Naruta wrote:
> Wow, RSX-11M? I haven't used that in a
> quarter-century. Gary Unruh and I wrote
> a 3GL for it that kept a big roomful of
> data entry gals happy on a PDP 11/70 with
> 2 MEGAbytes of memory. I even cobbled up
> a clock card for it so I could r
are 10 kind of people, those who can count to 1010 on their fingers,
and those who count to 11.
Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] namens Mike Naruta
Verzonden: ma 18-8-2008 15:24
Aan: Brian Lloyd; FlexRadio
Onderwerp: Re: [Flexradio] [OT] Mac mini as PowerSDR machin
Yep, Gerald has made the right decisions.
Look how this group is changing communications!
I am so eager for the VR re-write.
Peter G. Viscarola wrote:
>
> Sigh... I *miss* the PDP-11. Best assembler language ever.
>
> The PDP-11 would BE the PC today, if Digital in its later years had a
> clu
>
>Wow, RSX-11M? I haven't used that in a
>quarter-century. Gary Unruh and I wrote
>a 3GL for it that kept a big roomful of
>data entry gals happy on a PDP 11/70 with
>2 MEGAbytes of memory.
>
Sigh... I *miss* the PDP-11. Best assembler language ever.
The PDP-11 would BE the PC today, if Digi
Wow, RSX-11M? I haven't used that in a
quarter-century. Gary Unruh and I wrote
a 3GL for it that kept a big roomful of
data entry gals happy on a PDP 11/70 with
2 MEGAbytes of memory. I even cobbled up
a clock card for it so I could run 45.45
baud and copied the 20 meter RTTY autostart
net at th
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