23 Oct
2005
23 Oct
'05
4:36 p.m.
Subject: Re: FPGA VAX update
From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:04:22 -0600
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org
P&R is mostly sorting is my guess.
However my designs view point for
open source
is being able to keep the computer system capable of bootstaping itself.
Looking at the
latest version of red-hat I find it hard to do any real development work
as everything
is becoming too interconnected with every thing else.
P&R is taking the available resources those being:
number of PINS on the package that are for input output or either.
Number of macrocells
Avalable number of "wires" in the routing array (like crosspoint switches)
The devices I'd worked with are two generations (or more) old and it was
hard to fully use the available cells or if you did you were hitting
the routing limits. However the number of possible terms are HUGE.
PS. I like small computers -- I just use big ones like
PC's to play games.
12 to 18 bits to me is a nice sized machine.
I happen to like sizes that are multiples of 8 (8, 16 and 24) however
12bits are special to me.
Allison