15 May
2004
15 May
'04
4:17 a.m.
On Sat, 15 May 2004 00:49:28 +0100 (BST)
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
Don't remind
me of the sudden death of my /home disk last week...
(I had a backup.)
I
need a workshop and lots of tools to maintain a mechanical drive. This
can be expensive too.
Very true. The
sound of a spinning disk...=20
And of the headcrash ... :-) Mechanical parts can be rebuilt....
Including
crashed heads? ;-)
I hate to say this, but you're proposing replacing
one device (the old
disk drive) with maintenance problems with another device with even
worse maintenance problems (do you believe that CF cards and the same
FPGAs will be available in 20 years time??)
No. But I have the design so I can
stick the entire design into a single
FPGA in 20 years to rebuild my replacement with then current technology.
Programming a FPGA is a lot less expensive then building a new
machinical drive.
Sure. But a
FPGA is run time reconfigurable so I can emulate what
ever
Provided you have the compiler software and something to run it on... Personally, I find a soldering iron to be a lot easier
to use (and
quicker for small changes, bug fixes, etc) than any FPGA software I've
seen.
Depends, IMHO.
And it's certainly a lot easier to keep a
soldering iron working
than a PC...
True. ;-)
--
tsch??,
Jochen
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