13 Sep
2004
13 Sep
'04
6:21 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 08:20:54PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:26:27 -0400, Eric Dantan
Rzewnicki wrote:
I think it is a DX ... but, I'm not sure. I haven't needed to connect a
monitor to it ages. In the rare cases when it has been rebooted (mainly
power outages) it boots from a floppy and hasn't needed any other
attention. Anyway, somehow I have a foggy memory that it does have an
FPU.
-Eric Rz.
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.