Re: life extension of old computers thanks to opensource Contiki

["Daniel Mandic" <daniel_mandic@ping.at>]

Peter de Vroomen wrote:

> And about 'RISC architecture'... Of course these days the differences
> between RISC and CISC are pretty muddy. A Pentium 4 processor has all
> the characteristics of a RISC processor, but it still has a CISC

Dear Peter, I think you mean the i686. Look at the P4 Power-Ratings!
That Thing cannot be with RISC. Also the i586 Clone AMD XPxxxx... no
RISC.

There are some efficient Pentium available, but not the P4 :-)

(Microopcpode, ISSE3 ---- shite)

Well, the EE P4 is exceptionally. But 154W Power Consumption!?

The Pentium I use, needs about 26W and form in a line, between a
P4-2600 Standard (and XP2200), up to P4-2800 (XP-2400).
Memory latency is half as fast, as the fastest 64bit AMD Board and
faster than some Dual Channel 'DDR' 1600MHz FSB Boards (Standard 32bit).


I think time is needed, for coding RISC CpU�s. The 680xx is one of the
best CISC, beside the Z80. IMHO.
Although, I would say the percentage of Programmer on this world, is
still higher with 8bit than with 16bit (also many - older
win3.11/win32s coder etc.), or 32bit. I am not talking about C+ or C++.
Milking Machine etc.

Less is more!




Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic