[Arm-netbook] parallax open cpu

Christopher Havel laserhawk64 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 23:12:47 BST 2014


Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah no interrupts. Not very useful as a CPU then! Plus
it's weird. If there were a need for a parallel-processing microcontroller
then I'd see the point, but there isn't.


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Christopher Havel <laserhawk64 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > That's a microcontroller. They're misusing the term CPU.
>
>  yeahh but it's cool, it has 8 parallel cores!  love the design - no
> interrupts, you just dedicate one of the cores to processing I/O, in
> idle.  latency is absolute zero.  awesome.
>
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