* Posts by Colin 1

3 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Mar 2010

Sony slides expose saucy Xperia slate

Colin 1
Happy

Energy Units

Attended a very good lecture given by Warren East (ARM's CEO) a few weeks back in London, of which power consumption (or lack of it) was a major theme. ARM's preferred energy units - custard cream biscuits. Suitable candidate for the Reg's standard measure on this topic too? Dunkable as well...

Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old

Colin 1

MK14s & Micro-controllers

I too started my computing career on a MK14 - taught me all the basics about microprocessors at a pocket money affordable price. Chemist is quite right about modern microcontrollers offering the same experience, plus quite a bit more. You can combine the two - I've built a MK14 real-time emulator running on one. See the front page shot on http://mymk14.co.uk. I prototyped on PIC, but I've moved to AVR, as it offers enough memory to emulate a fully expanded (640 byte RAM!) MK14, and also comes with GNU C if needed. Happy days!

BBC might pay for Tory broadband promises

Colin 1
FAIL

Why 100 Mbit/s?

Errr.... the rest of the world (Japan, Korea, Sweden etc) are doing GPON now which offers 1 Gbit/s. Small cost differential from 100 Mbit/s for the access infrastructure. So why are we even talking about 100 Mbit/s?