3 Jan
2007
3 Jan
'07
7:31 a.m.
On Jan 3, 2007, at 12:46 AM, Richard wrote:
Owner's manual has a date of 1997...
Unreal. I know of dozens of these in production. This "10 year"
rule really just doesn't fit sometimes.
Someone is giving one of these to me with 4 CPUs.
What CPUs?
What should I do with it? Its got no graphics,
E450s were primarily designed to be servers, not workstations.
But I know a guy (ahem Doc!) who has a very tasty workstation-config
E450, rather drool-worthy.
Depending on your network setup, I'd use it as a centralized
server. Mail, spam filtering, NFS (or samba if you're still running
legacy Windows systems), etc.
but I figure I could make it compute
arbitrary precision deep Mandelbrot set zooms.
Bad idea. SPARCs, even the later UltraSPARCs, don't do very well
in the floating point department. But...if you could code up an
integer-based routine it'd scream. The dynamic range of the numbers
required in these calculations is very, very small. One thing that
comes to mind is that Ciarcia did a nice integer implementation years
ago, to run on 8051 microcontrollers. I've looked at that project in
some detail but haven't built one...yet.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL