[linux-audio-user] Linux DAW FX box how to for noobs...New Link...

[Steve Harris]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:26:27 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On this note, I have 25Mhz 486 w/12MB of RAM that has served as my
> firewall/router for 4.5 years. It's soon to be replaced by a shinier,
> newer, faster classic pentium 200MHz w/64MB of RAM. Last night I was
> thinking of how to keep it useful. I came up with the idea of writing
> some script that generates some kind of audio in realtime continuously 
> to be streamed over the net. I'm thinking of trying to get it to boot 
> over the network from an image on my file server and run in ram ... or
> maybe an NFS or other share.
> 
> This should probably go in another thread, but does anyone know what to
> shoot for? How much realtime dsp can a box like this reasonably handle?
> Could it run hermes from a python ECI script with ecasound controllers
> controlling the parameters?

If its a 486 SX it wont have a floating pint unit, so most modern DSP
software is not an option.

- Steve