From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 8 23:11:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA11228 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 23:11:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA11219 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 23:11:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@xmission.com) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA01847; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 23:32:30 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 23:32:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710090532.XAA01847@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz CC: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199710082214.PAA18449@hub.freebsd.org> References: <199710081200.IAA17975@hda.hda.com> <26258.876324035@time.cdrom.com> <199710082214.PAA18449@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk C. R. Harding writes: > Panasonic's Smart-cart broadcast automation system, which consists of > a cabinet, tape loader robot, and a couple of VTRs and provides > everything you need for a basic cable channel or three (for a mere > $75 - $100k) uses either a Win NT or Unix (I don't know which > flavour) front end, except that the NT system doesn't have as much > functionality. :-) The Philips BTS Media Pool audio/video storage system uses HP-UX workstations for the front end, which could obviously be replaced at lower cost with FreeBSD systems. The back-end storage and channel switching is done with 68360s running VxWorks. I hadn't thought about it, but with a good video board or two and a ccd driver, you could do quite a reasonable job of a one or two channel storage pool and editor using FreeBSD. Last year, we prototyped an entire three-stage switcher on HP-UX and FreeBSD at BTS. The switcher code was all written in C++, and the lowest driver layer was easily subclassed to run on the custom BTS hardware, or as a simple ASCII output on UNIX. Our "vitual" switching speeds were certainly better on a Pentium 133 than the real hardware, which was a 16 Mhz 68HC000. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com