Re: TI-H: TCP/IP
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Re: TI-H: TCP/IP
>On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Grant Stockly wrote:
>
>> mpg123 is already ported to the motorola 68k series processor. I never
>> knew a 33MHz CISC processor could do MP3s! (68040)
>
>Well, what would stop it!?!?!?!? 68040's are not quite as simple as
>you'd expect for the 68k series... (Althogh 68060's are a clear
>improvement even over that.) Have you not run an LC575 or equiv/higher
>lately? They really aren't slow...(relative, of course...if you think
>they're really slow with MacOS, put {Net,Open}BSD on them and they begin
>to fly nicely...)
I run NetBSD on my Quadra610 (www server #2 for gussie.alaska.net) it also
handles file serving, mail, dns, list serving) Then www server #1 is a 486
DX 33 running RedHat 4.02. Look at the picture at
http://gussie.alaska.net. The Tower is the PC. The PC also does warftp
for a priviate server. but, you don't know that. :) To log on, you have
to send the server an e-mail and all that junk. The server shouldn't
respond from a portscan.
>In any case, I don't see why being a "33MHz CISC processor" has anything
>to do with MP3ablity. There are less obvious, but far more important
>issues. As well CISC vs RISC meaning near nothing these days...
The 60MHz PowerPC processor is clearly faster than the equiv 68060...
Comparing motorola's RISC to CISC is okay. A have seen a LC575, I have a
Quadra 610 (gussie.alaska.net #2) and it has the same processor. Even
though it has speed, it has to fly through numbers like a jet to do MP3
decoding. a 486 DX 33 with math coprocessor can't handle borderline
decoding. The 66 can if you have a good MB. Motorola is alaways too much,
too expensive.
>af (who's used up all his ti-hardware energy for this month and is now
>going to go back to full-trash mode...)
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