tiny hardware

O'NEEL Bruce beoneel at mindspring.com
Tue Feb 16 09:28:58 UTC 1999


It uses a 16mhz 68k dragon ball processor.  Assuming all things are
equal (they aren't of course), 0 tinyBenchmarks returns 874125
bytecodes/sec; 32030 sends/sec on my 40mhz 68LC040.  This means that
it should run something close to 35000 bytecodes/sec and 13000
sends/sec.  My 40mhz 040 very rarely feels slow when running MVC,
though morphic can be a bit pokey.   In general I suspect that the
SIMM computer should feel slow, but, ok.

cheers

bruce

Chris Reuter writes:
 > 
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > I've lapsed in reading the list for a while so this may already be
 > posted, but if not, you might find this interesting.  Apparently, some
 > of the uClinux folks are building an ultrasmall computer on a SIMM.
 > The web page is at:
 > 
 >     http://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/uClinux/simm/
 > 
 > It looks like it'll be able to run a reasonable Squeak image, though I
 > don't know if it will do it quickly enough to be worthwhile.
 > 
 > BTW, it appears that uClinux will actually run on a Pilot, so it
 > shouldn't be too hard to port Squeak to it.  Of course, it would lose
 > its PDA functionality, but who needs that when you've got Squeak?  :)
 > 
 > 
 > 			   --Chris
 > 





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