Re: TI-H: General questions with a possibly big im

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Subject: Re: TI-H: General questions with a possibly big im
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 18:13:24 -0800 (AKDT)
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>You can do it cheaper and with far less power requirements if you
>build one from the ground up.

Thats what I did.  I built it out of the minimal chips required.

>The same thing for building a full blown portable VR system.  You get what you
>need, and if it's a dedicated 3d engine, liquid cooled CPU, and so on, that's
>what you have to do.
>
>Just like you don't tie your shoes with 2" thick cable, you don't hoist an
>engine with some polyester thread.
>CK
>
>Grant Stockly wrote:
>
>> And you are the one saying I should use a powerful chip to do a powerful
>> task?  The AVR with optimized code gets better transfer rates than a 486
>> 25.  The first version was slow enough to trip the timeout.

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