28-06-2003 11:53									#31
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Well, my Qiwi has an AthlonXP 2500+ (not OCed during the summer), 1 GB of RAM, and will have 60 GB of drive space once I get RAID running.

But we're working with the MC68HC11 microcontroller in one of my classes this semester, and it's really amazing. The 6811 has a processor clocked at 2MHz, 64K of addressable space, and five registers (two 8-bit accumulators, two 16-bit index registers, and the CCR). And when you get down to the basic structure, two million cycles is really a lot to work with. When each opcode takes just a few cycles, and it does $0000 to $FFFF in 32.77 ms, you can really do a lot of comparatively complex stuff very quickly on that little device.

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	28-06-2003 12:04									#32
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Check out my first computer

Sinclair ZX81 with membrane keyboard and a whole 1K of RAM; later upgraded to a whopping 16K.

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	28-06-2003 12:09									#33
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quote: Originally posted by Fve Crathva But we're working with the MC68HC11 microcontroller in one of my classes this semester, and it's really amazing. The 6811 has a processor clocked at 2MHz, 64K of addressable space, and five registers (two 8-bit accumulators, two 16-bit index registers, and the CCR). And when you get down to the basic structure, two million cycles is really a lot to work with. When each opcode takes just a few cycles, and it does $0000 to $FFFF in 32.77 ms, you can really do a lot of comparatively complex stuff very quickly on that little device.

Really, you are using that? Cool!

When I was an undergrad one of the projects was to build an infrared phone. I used the 68HC11 for the embedded controller. Nice little component.

The 65C02 is still probably widely used, just because it's basically a RISC (one instruction per clock cycle).

	28-06-2003 12:10									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon Check out my first computer Sinclair ZX81 with membrane keyboard and a whole 1K of RAM; later upgraded to a whopping 16K.

All right! That was an excellent little computer for its time.

	28-06-2003 12:18									#35
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger The 65C02 is still probably widely used, just because it's basically a RISC (one instruction per clock cycle).

:LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

You have a deranged idea of RISC... but never mind the geekspeak.

Never owned one myself Agathon... but I first bit of software I bought was to play on a freinds.

	28-06-2003 13:54									#36
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quote: Originally posted by Cruddy You have a deranged idea of RISC... but never mind the geekspeak.

That's one of the most important criteria for a RISC.

	28-06-2003 14:31									#37
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Can't say I've advanced much in computer terms over the years. The first computer I got was an Amiga 1200 when I was 10, and I upgraded that over the years (at one point it had 18meg of RAM and a 250MB hard disk; that was a lot for an Amiga), until I finally got a PC of my own a few months ago - A P266.

	30-06-2003 03:59									#38
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NEW PROBLEM!

I guess that I have gone a little crazy with the wireless thing. I got my old 233 Mhz out of the attic and was going to install it on my wireless network so the kids could access the internet. There was an old pokemon program that started when you booted up. Like a DUMMIE I removed it from the statup folder. Now when I try to boot all I get are beeps. The monitor does nothing! I'm lost! Am I in for a trip to the repair shop or can I do anything?

	30-06-2003 04:02									#39
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Sounds like something has come loose on the motherboard. Make sure everything is slotted in securely.

	30-06-2003 04:04									#40
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Checking now. Thanks!

	01-07-2003 21:45									#41
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quote: Originally posted by Q Cubed they're semiconductors. for some reason, those impurities make them run faster, cooler, and better.

That's dope

Well I am looking at getting a new system once I have some debts sorted out and I should be able to go pretty much top of the range in a desktop (I am not too concerned about portability). 3.2GHz with 1Gb RAM would do me at the moment, but let's see what happens in the next few months, which is the timescale over which I will be looking at buying a new computer system...

	01-07-2003 21:57									#42
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quote: Originally posted by Cruddy :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: You have a deranged idea of RISC... but never mind the geekspeak.

I hate to side with Urban, but he's right on this one.

One of the main tenants of RISC processors is that every instruction can be completed in at most one clock cycle.

His wording may have been a tad vague, but I think he had the right idea.

One of the deranged ideas out there is that RISC is better than CISC, and vice versa. Modern architectures are hybrids.