Siemens PCS7 (was: Statement & apology (was Re: 10 Year Rule))

Am 1 Sep 2006 12:03 meinte Simon Fryer: Well, for one the PCS7 (or are you talking about the FSC TFT-Display S7, or the Siemens S7 mobile phone?) is definitly upper edge, for large scale control. And I don'T know all components or internals here. At least the OS (operating Station) part is Win2k based, and all development tools are Windows based - thus it's safe to assume that his PC anf 19" boxes hav at least one Pentium inside. For the AS and ET processors I realy don't know. The software is bundeled as a 'PCS-Library', and I'm prety shure that at least some of the perhipherals use 166/167 CPUs. BTW, a real neat chip. 8 register sets with 4 'virtual' cores - task switch in a single clock cycles between these - it's realy easy to programm communication and controll applications with a great degree of paralell processing. To my memory, the PCS 7 is the follow up to the TELEPERM, for quite large installations (aka chemical industry, car manufacurer, etc. THe TELEPERM has been around since the late 70s, based on custom CPUs. The migration did go smooth since the dezentralized approach and most protokolls where kept, or have been ported back. My guess is that there migh be Pentiums, but rather running portet (or new) Versions of the old custom minis. Anyway, I can not realy relive you here. But then again, for real world applications (beside the geekisch ivory tower of the beauty of CPUs), all that counts is if the System does a reliable performance of what I want it to do. If they can tame a Pentium (and Windows) to do the trick, fine with me - for the job! Gruss H. -- VCF Europa 8.0 am 28/29.April 2007 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/