ahenshaw wrote:I submitted an "article" for this to Slashdot. Probably won't get picked up, as they don't seem too interested in promoting Kickstarter programs; but, I thought it was worth a try. This project needs some more advertising if it's going to get funded.
ahenshaw, if your really after seriously advertising this and the other Xcore projects to get a lot more people in here then your wasting your time with slashdot and the main websites that gravitate to the AMD/Intel stories other than encouraging a 2 minute think limited attention span "thats cool" of most readers there.
if your after real longer term advocacy of Xcore then you need to look up the other fringe group's such as the so called "amiga retro scene" guys like "minimig"
http://www.minimig.net/viewforum.php?f=7 and its like where they already use FPGA's etc and their fans unable to make their own stuff want to actually buy things like this and play for fun....
also i imagine all the other retro platform people BBC/Archimedes, Sinclair specy/QL, amiga ,ST,Haiku/OpenBeOS users websites etc anything thats off radar and covered here in the past really
http://www.osnews.com/ all these are full of advocates and potential users looking to buy anything and anyone's HW and SW that expands their interest really and will auto advocate it if it fills their needs and help fill relevant Kickstarter programs etc, so start with minimig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn4ZzLH6MpE complete with parallax scrolling :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWV6P4sg ... re=related such a shame you cant boot today's machine's this fast and get on with your productivity :)
if anything AMIGA retro fans are your best and loudest potential advocate's as they are (Legion :) ) everywhere in the shadows and many already wanted the original Transputer cards in their machines
http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/metacomco.htm
"...What I know of the transputer is that it was demoed at the spring 1988 developer's conference in an off the shelf A2000. The board looked very clean and neat. There was only one hand wired jumper on it, so the project must have been fairly mature. It had a 32bit IMS T-414 or T-800 transputer chip running at 15MHz (10 MIPs), with 2k of on-chip RAM and one to four megabytes of external on-board DRAM. It communicated to other transputers via four on-chip serial links. In a 2000 you could have up to 4 other transputer daughter boards with 4 transputer chips on each.
The on chip links could be used to connect to other transputer equipped 2000s to create a Lan without the need for a network controller card. The practical limitation was on the order of 500 transputer chips. The OS they were using was a partially com- pleted version of "Helios". The only thing they could demo was a Dhrystone test. It was very impressive for the time, and not bad even by today's standards. I was really pissed when CBM just dropped development.."
http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/im ... acomco.jpg
or knew about them and know of their potential... probably more so than a few people reading these boards in fact meant in a good way OC,
and some even committed the sin :grin: and later got ST's to try and use them etc
actually... after reacquainting myself with that page above, it seems that slightly expanding this and others Xcore Board's to allow that
The on chip links could be used to connect to other transputer equipped 2000s to create a Lan without the need for a network controller card. seems like a good idea even today, to connect all the PCB's this may get used in later,so 2or more channels as "one in" "one out" to simply daisy chain etc with some basic functional SW to make it simple for them to load and IPC communicate all of it together "Mirage cloud" style
http://www.openmirage.org/
i came to Mirage (seems interesting) following these links like you do if you want interesting concepts to add functionality such as improved IPC for 2013 etc
http://anil.recoil.org/papers/drafts/20 ... draft1.pdf
https://github.com/rigtorp/ipc-bench
http://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid= ... 11&bih=694
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/conferences/re ... paper1.pdf
https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/intervi ... peddy.html
and finally the video
http://vimeo.com/16189862