Re: DR Ting, 3D, Video Streaming.
- To: MISC
- Subject: Re: DR Ting, 3D, Video Streaming.
- From: "Wayne Morellini" <waynemm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 18:28:23 EST
Jeff Wrote:
Dear MISC readers:
Yesterday at the Silicon Valley Forth Interest Group meeting
Dr. C.H. Ting gave a presentation about the development that
he is doing in Taiwan with a new startup. They have been
looking at ways to extend his P16 and P24 designs. With
five bit opcodes they have 32 instructions and Chuck had
-- Cut
Well I have to hand it to Dr Ting he is comming through, good on him! I
actualy suggested to Chuck that a 24-bit design was better than a 20-bit
design in 1988. Using programmable silicon designs that could be converted
to mass production in 1996, and a cheap 160*160 screened PDA, with low end
and powered processor, with simple Organiser functions would actually work
(when they said it wouldn't) around 94-96. Three good ideas in 12 years is
ok.
But I have oftened toyed with the idea of hooking a 32 bit misc up to one of
the portable Graphic/3D processor with on chip memory (upto 32 MB on chip
now, I think). Would certainly give enough memory for the program and the
graphics. How possible would this be?
I was able to get videos of Dr. Ting's and Wil Baden's
presentations and will make them available. I have also
converted some videos to mpg format and will distribute
them on CD-ROM. I placed a greatly compressed streaming
video version of Chuck's interview from tape 1 at my
web site. It is in a format for dsl speed access and
28MB so I don't think you want to try to play it over
a slow dial-up modem. I can place some small videos
at the web site.
I actually was meaning to send you some names of new video compression stuff
so that you could put the lot on one DVD, or send it over the net. I have
heard of a few groups offering upto around 1000:1 compression ration (one
video over a 33.6 kb/s modem with sound, then the Israelies announced they
had been secretly using a 600:1 military method for years). The only one I
can remember is Adam's Platform in Australia. Wavelets (being brought into
jpeg/mpeg standards) and Mpeg 4 (DVD onto a CD-R) are available and not too
far behind in the compression rate.
Thanks
Wayne.
Best wishes,
Jeff Fox
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