On 24 Feb 2006 13:09:17 -0800, "larwe" <zwsdotcom@gmail.com> wrote:>Tim Wescott wrote: > >> Uh, check your history -- Shakespeare _was_ mass market in his time -- >> why do you think there's so much low comedy in everything he did, even >> his dramas? > >Mmm, it was a very bad example but the best I could think of. Can you >name an author that would be recognized by name but doesn't write stuff >people actually read?Hmm. What stands out from my literary experiences in taking 6-credit hr courses on the damned subject (forced by the university scholars program I was in) as fitting this is F. Scott Fitzgerald. No one sensibly reads him without being arm-twisted into it. The Great Gatsby is a classic -- an example of literature that hurts so much to read out of struggling to wonder why anyone considers it important literature, at all, that you will feel this incredible liberation when you are allowed to finally stop reading it. Jon
Entering the embedded world... help?
Started by ●February 23, 2006
Reply by ●February 24, 20062006-02-24
Reply by ●February 24, 20062006-02-24
larwe wrote:> Tim Wescott wrote: > > >>Uh, check your history -- Shakespeare _was_ mass market in his time -- >>why do you think there's so much low comedy in everything he did, even >>his dramas? > > > Mmm, it was a very bad example but the best I could think of. Can you > name an author that would be recognized by name but doesn't write stuff > people actually read? >Dostoyevski (_you_ check the spelling). I've read the first half of "The Brother's Karamotsov" twice, out of a feeling of duty (or snobbishness, I can't remember which). At one place I worked we called the regression test spec "War and Peace", even though no one had read the original -- not even those of us who started calling it that. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com Posting from Google? See http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
Reply by ●February 24, 20062006-02-24
> Dostoyevski (_you_ check the spelling). I've read the first half of > "The Brother's Karamotsov" twice, out of a feeling of duty (or > snobbishness, I can't remember which). > > At one place I worked we called the regression test spec "War and > Peace", even though no one had read the original -- not even those of us > who started calling it that.Hey! I've read both of those(and other works). I'm not if I should take offense or not. I don't know why but I got on a kick of Russian classicals for awhile. I still like the style but have no where near the time to read such a tome anymore. :) Oh, and for whatever it's worth it's I have only seen it as Dostoyevsky. The trailing i seems more Polish, but I can't say which one is truly correct. JW
Reply by ●February 25, 20062006-02-25
cyberzl1@yahoo.com wrote:>>Dostoyevski (_you_ check the spelling). I've read the first half of >>"The Brother's Karamotsov" twice, out of a feeling of duty (or >>snobbishness, I can't remember which). >> >>At one place I worked we called the regression test spec "War and >>Peace", even though no one had read the original -- not even those of us >>who started calling it that. > > > Hey! I've read both of those(and other works). I'm not if I should > take offense or not.Don't -- I may have made it through the second time, and enjoyed it, except that about 1/3 of the way through I got impatient with the story not really starting up and skimmed over all the stupid character descriptions. 2/3 of the way through I realized that the 'stupid' character descriptions _were_ the story. I just didn't have the heart to try round 3 -- this was back when I was in high school. Maybe I should try again.> > I don't know why but I got on a kick of Russian classicals for awhile. > I still like the style but have no where near the time to read such a > tome anymore. :) > > Oh, and for whatever it's worth it's I have only seen it as > Dostoyevsky. The trailing i seems more Polish, but I can't say which > one is truly correct. >If I only got one letter wrong it would be a happy miracle. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com Posting from Google? See http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
Reply by ●February 25, 20062006-02-25
Tim Wescott <tim@seemywebsite.com> wrote:> Dostoyevski (_you_ check the spelling).... Obviously 100% incorrect, because not one of those letters you used is from the kyrillic alphabet ;-> And as far as the transliteration from Russian written in kyrillic letters to English in latins, it's not worth bothering about getting that correct. The Russian government has been known to change the official transliterations of their citizens' names more than once per decade. Yes, that means they get new names roughly every time they renew their passport. So don't bother too much: whichever spelling of Dostoyevski you use, it has a good chance of having been wrong for about half of the last 20 years, and will be incorrect again within the next 10. -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
Reply by ●February 26, 20062006-02-26
larwe wrote:> Tim Wescott wrote: > >> Uh, check your history -- Shakespeare _was_ mass market in his time -- >> why do you think there's so much low comedy in everything he did, even >> his dramas? > > Mmm, it was a very bad example but the best I could think of. Can you > name an author that would be recognized by name but doesn't write stuff > people actually read? >Umberto Eco? The film of "The Name of the Rose" was so popular that his next puplication, "Focult's Pendulum", became a best seller - but very few people have actually read it.
Reply by ●March 12, 20062006-03-12
In a perhaps vain attempt to recover this thread... I've more or less (more less than more) settled on using a TS-5700 (PC-104 card, slow pentium chip). Not the cheapest way to go, but I think I can get 4k interrupts a second on it and get 6 channels of PWM out of it in software (for dimmers), and that means no extra hardware, which for me means no extra angst. But the people over at www.embeddedarm.com are not answering my emails, which admittedly are a little witless since I'm not very knowledgable in this whole embedded world thing. So maybe someone here will take pity on me. Anyone here with PC-104 experience want to help? 1. I want the aforementioned 4k interrupts/sec. My first thought was to reprogram timer 2, but it's not tied to an IRQ. I thought of hacking timer 0, but I'd like to keep the real time clock working, and that's a hassle. Then I saw an example of reprogramming timer 1/IRQ 10. I thought the world ended if you touched that timer; can anyone comment on if it's really safe to hack the timer and take over that interrupt? 2. I need 4 serial ports. Can they share IRQ 3 and 4? (I'm worried about this because my fallback position is to tie timer 2 to IRQ6, both of which are exposed pins on the board, and get my interrupts that way - but then 6 isn't available for com ports). 3. I need TCP and UDP, some sizable I/O buffers, and my C++/assembled code is already hitting 6000 lines. I'm wondering about code size. What's the best choice of OS for flat memory model past, say, 640K of memory, hookable interrupts, good support for TCP and so on? (It's been decades since I looked at DOS, and when I knew it, it wasn't flat. That part of my mind is mostly cobwebs.) Thanks. I'm hoping this is the end of the naive questions.