Re: DR Ting, 3D, Video Streaming.

["Wayne Morellini" <waynemm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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