On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
I love this concept:
http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=590
A windows screensaver that uses qemu to boot linux as a screensaver. LOL won't
that give the corporate BOFH's a heart attack.
"Why is this computer running linux?"
"Ohh its not really, hit any key or move the mouse..."
Sort of reminds me of what one of our guys around here has been doing....
He has two of our devices.
Absolutely identical hardware. Not so much as a transistor different.
Both devices are running the same operating system ECOS. (An open source
embedded RTOS)
Both devices are running exactly the same application software.
Both devices doing exactly the same thing.
The difference?
One device has a sparc CPU, the other has a vaguely powerpc-like CPU
called a NIOS.
Yip, you read that right. Same hardware, same code, different CPU.
Huh?
They are simply different softcores inside the same hardware FPGA.
How geekily cool is that!
So why bother?
The NIOS softcore wasn't available when we started development, but uses
fewer gates so hopefully will chew less power.
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