Bill Benson
bensonforums at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 16:22:46 CST 2015
oops ... "BIBD" for my last post. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:35 PM, John W. Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think so. I am also running it on a Linux Mint machine which I am > playing with. > > Speaking of Linux, the Raspberry Pi B 2 just hit the internet. With a quad > core v7 core and a gig of Ram, otherwise identical. > > I am seriously considering building out a parallel processor using a bunch > of these. Lots of press on a bunch of guys doing this, using the old Pi. > > With a faster processor, quad cores and twice the memory, the overall > horsepower just went up radically. I'm thinking of maybe starting with 8 > of them. (32) one ghz cores and 8 gigs of ram anyone? > > I ordered a BeagleBone black last week (before this announcement) because > I love ucontroller / electronics stuff. I got my start in electronics back > in the late 60s, pre ucontroller. A few years back I started playing with > the Atmel uc series, with many different pin packages. It was a bit of a > pita to set up but was a ton-o-fun. I actually designed a pulse width > modulation motor driver, driving a cmos high power driver, driving a very > powerful motor from a ride on toy. > > The BeagleBone has most of that stuff built right in, in a package size > the same as the Pi. Well, not the high power cmos amp... But it has a > couple of dedicated 200 mhz controllers right on die for the real time > stuff to dr. > > Of course you have to program them in assembler... > > And just a slew of i/o. Cool stuff. > > > John W. Colby > > > On 2/2/2015 9:16 PM, Darryl Collins wrote: > >> Isn't Thunderbird unsupported by Mozilla these days? I thought they >> stopped working on it a while back now - maybe 18 months or more? >> >> Anyway, welcome Back John. >> >> Cheers >> Darryl >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces@ >> databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby >> Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 1:09 PM >> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com >> Subject: [AccessD] I couldn't post >> >> I've been here forever, I just couldn't post because my Thunderbird >> install on my laptop insisted on using the wrong output email address and >> so AccessD servers kicked my replies back. >> >> I finally decided to just uninstall and reinstall (and lose all my stuff >> - it's a long story). >> >> -- >> John W. Colby >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >