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
