17 Oct
2012
17 Oct
'12
10:21 p.m.
On 10/15/2012 05:11 PM, Rick Bensene wrote:
TCP/IP Networking (not to mention wireless) not
included.
Why not? I think that Magic-1 is entirely LS-TTL and has a TCP/IP stack.
Whether anyone would *want* TCP/IP if the only machines around were quite
resource-starved, I don't know; there are probably much better ways of
shunting data around in such an environment (particularly on a LAN).
Of course, without the tech that came from LSI, we
wouldn't have
high-resolution LCD displays, either. Nothing like lugging a CRT
around. The display would probably be a CRT or some kind of
character-oriented plasma panel (Burroughs Self-Scan?) -- both big power
hogs.
Hmm, possibly not high-res displays with high-refresh, but I bet someone
would have developed a high-res display which was good for visualizing data
that wasn't changing on a regular basis.
I still use a big ol' CRT for my primary PC and don't consider it a power
hog; sure it consumes a lot more than a LCD, but it's not like I have
astronomical power bills because of it or need some kind of dedicated AC
line to run it :-) Heck, six months of the year we normally have the
heating on anyway, so any heat losses are still doing useful work...