QNX, Useful applications

[Mark Tapley]

At 9:05 -0600 3/19/06, John Foust wrote:

>I think it comes down to the cost of electricity.  ...
>...  Still, more than once I've shocked myself by
>examining the performance graph and wondering what's sucking 100% of the
>CPU.  Even today's hardware will run consume extra power and run
>hotter if you're pushing the CPU.

Which is of course right on the button. I have to say, there's very 
little way I could justify the use of kWh on either of the two 
projects, if the alternative is having the machine off. But for 
people wanting to do something with their classics, I assume the 
electricity has proven not to be a major consideration. And certainly 
for any already-running and on-line VAXen, that must be the case.

Something I hadn't considered, though, is whether classic hardware 
burns less current "idle". I knew about sleep mode on my G4 laptop 
using less power; at what generation did that become prevalent?

At 9:05 -0600 3/19/06, Dan wrote:
>I don't know if it's for the same reason but seti never had a Vax
>client because of a lack of iee floating point (from the faq).

The cryptography and Optimal Golomb Ruler projects *should* be 
integer, but I don't know how the algorithms are implemented.
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