[TenTec] Being a Contrarian...."

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:47:17PM -0500, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:
In a one man show, it takes time to produce proven good code
> and new hardware. I lean towards using an AMD or Intel Pentium style
> processor because I can buy boards with CPU, I/O, and RAM far cheaper
> than I can buy DSP boards and the later Pentium families do have DSP
> instructions. That and I already have and use a compiler for them that
> comes with a very fine debugger that may not be part of the tool kit for
> the DSP chips. I can be very much more productive with existing hardware
> than having to do ALL the hardware and software.

Not only that, but more importantly, when you find at 3am that there is 
something you need to know, there are lots of people on line somewhere
in the world that can answer your question.

If suddenly you can't finish the project by yourself, you can find someone
to take it over or help you quickly. 

Geoff.


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