From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: References: <7aa1f8ae5b628668@orthanc.ca> <7aa20b09df49cbe7@orthanc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <11020.1539286045.1@orthanc.ca> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:27:25 -0700 Message-Id: <7aa20baa3f9e7c77@orthanc.ca> Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg Subject: Re: [9fans] PDP11 (Was: Re: what heavy negativity!) Topicbox-Message-UUID: ecbf3b54-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 hiro writes: > But given the alternatives available back then, even the armv5 in the > kirkwood, which was cheaper even before the rpi became popular, did > the same job more stably, which is why i would never actually > recommend the pi. And there are even more alternatives now. I get that. But the actual hardware driving this conversation isn't particularly relevant,, and devolving to a hardware bikeshed isn't helpful. (Not picking on you specifically.) > Are you doing the AIS demodulation on plan9 on rpi? It would be a > great showcase. Wish I had been given the opportunity to find an > excuse to build something like that on plan9 instead :) Not yet. First I need to prove it can be done with the usual suspects (GNU radio, on the Pi -- the native fft libraries seem fast enought to make this viable). If the pessimized case works, then porting the code from the GNU radio python modules to C is a mechanical process for the most part. This week I am ENOTIME with getting the boat tarped up in preparation for the winter monsoon season :-P. --lyndon