>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. Good point. There is some fixed point dsp code floating around. I've heard of a fixed point only version of mad (mp3 decoder) (or is it integer only on all platforms?) and I'll bet the embedded guys have fixed point fft etc. So it would take some work...
