Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux DAW FX box how to for noobs...New Link...
From: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki (rzewnickie_AT_rfa.org)
Date: Mon Sep 13 2004 - 23:04:50 EEST
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 08:20:54PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:26:27 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> > On this note, I have 25Mhz 486 w/12MB of RAM that has served as my
> > firewall/router for 4.5 years. It's soon to be replaced by a shinier,
> > newer, faster classic pentium 200MHz w/64MB of RAM. Last night I was
> > thinking of how to keep it useful. I came up with the idea of writing
> > some script that generates some kind of audio in realtime continuously
> > to be streamed over the net. I'm thinking of trying to get it to boot
> > over the network from an image on my file server and run in ram ... or
> > maybe an NFS or other share.
> > This should probably go in another thread, but does anyone know what to
> > shoot for? How much realtime dsp can a box like this reasonably handle?
> > Could it run hermes from a python ECI script with ecasound controllers
> > controlling the parameters?
> If its a 486 SX it wont have a floating pint unit, so most modern DSP
> software is not an option.
I think it is a DX ... but, I'm not sure. I haven't needed to connect a
monitor to it ages. In the rare cases when it has been rebooted (mainly
power outages) it boots from a floppy and hasn't needed any other
attention. Anyway, somehow I have a foggy memory that it does have an
FPU.
-Eric Rz.
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