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: > > 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. 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.
