Any one tried a Asus Eee PC T91? I claim it is the best outta the box $500 computer available (this week anyway). I'm scribbling on it as I speak. Touch/Swivel/Tablet screen, All the usual stuff and gps and tv tuner and ... lotsa stuff I haven't played with. I can't keep up with the eee port.
Totally of topic. MP Inferno is going well. The new chips have been released. 64 cores now. Still waiting for the CAD tools to fit it on the chips. It'll be finished in 3 hours. If you like fun and have talent you can write functions in restricted C and it generates VHDL to add custom instructions, and the tools are very good - simple example being that a memmove instruction is ten times faster than the best you can write in asm or c. Anyone interested in this please e-mail me (off list). A brucee example is for the Heap processor there is now a "find first block of size N, coalescing as you go" instruction. 20 times speedup. This is exciting (to me) but I don't have time for the obvious optimizations. You don't need the hardware either ..~$500. The emulators/simulators are enough. And if you know Modelsim you can simulate the 4 chip board. brucee
