On Sat, 15 May 2004 00:49:28 +0100 (BST)
ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
> > Very true. The sound of a spinning disk...=20
> And of the headcrash ... :-)
Don't remind me of the sudden death of my /home disk last week...
(I had a backup.)
> Mechanical parts can be rebuilt....
Including crashed heads? ;-)
> I hate to say this, but you're proposing replacing one device (the old
> disk drive) with maintenance problems with another device with even
> worse maintenance problems (do you believe that CF cards and the same
> FPGAs will be available in 20 years time??)
No. But I have the design so I can stick the entire design into a single
FPGA in 20 years to rebuild my replacement with then current technology.
Programming a FPGA is a lot less expensive then building a new
machinical drive.
> > Sure. But a FPGA is run time reconfigurable so I can emulate what
> > ever
> Provided you have the compiler software and something to run it on...
I need a workshop and lots of tools to maintain a mechanical drive. This
can be expensive too.
> Personally, I find a soldering iron to be a lot easier to use (and
> quicker for small changes, bug fixes, etc) than any FPGA software I've
> seen.
Depends, IMHO.
> And it's certainly a lot easier to keep a soldering iron working
> than a PC...
True. ;-)
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Jochen
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Received on Sat May 15 2004 - 03:17:37 BST