Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05111
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Steven Bolt sbolt@xs4all.nl
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 17:01:14 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Something funny with the 1382 voltage triggers?
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 JVernonM@aol.com wrote:
> > But all of a sudden, after all talk of `advanced' BEAM,
> > everything must stay just as it is. Change! Innovation! The
> > Horror!
> I'm not so sure. There has been a small revolution in BEAM in the
> last few months. People are starting to express their own
> individual opinions and approaches. I would say a year or so ago,
> many of these topics would have been shoved aside in favor of the
> BEAM Godlet hard line.
Not really. I'm afraid that my entire argument is ancient, as BEAM
goes, and on earlier occasions there were no objections from Mark
T, Dave H and so on. But most stuff on the Web is hardly ever
updated, and few page maintainers really care about the
disadvantages of the early circuitry. So that stuff remains out
there in large numbers, amidst quite a bit of well intended
misinformation. So we see the same questions and frustrations
being repeated ad infinitum.
About once a year the combination of `advanced' talk and old,
everlasting reality gets to me, and I rant about it for a few days...
> Mr. Tilden's last note to the list indicating that we just were
> not smart enough to do anything constructive backfired
> tremendously.
That wasn't what he said, Jim.
> Just look at the circuits introduced almost daily by Wilf.
A great source of inspiration :)
> Consider the Power Smart Head. It is a much better approach and
> it came from the list. People are already building the thing
> (myself included). An actual better circuit, designed and built
> without the help of Tilden or the approval of the Godlets.
The Head project is fine, but attacking Mark T. like that is
uncalled for. When does he ever get in your way? His line of
research may be too ambitious - that's all there is to it.
Very little connection with BEAM as we know it here.
---8<---
> so we can solve that scalability problem for you?
Fact is, if the Nervous BiCores and such can't be scaled, there
isn't that much excuse for them. BEAM would be better off if it
could move on towards modular circuitry, designed in the normal
way, making sure that everything works as specified despite large
component tolerances.
Best,
Steve
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