From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 11 04:45:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA27045 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 04:45:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA27031 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 04:44:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id MAA22351; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:06:39 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199806111006.MAA22351@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: floating point usage within the kernel - howto ? To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:06:39 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806110933.TAA18520@cimlogic.com.au> from "John Birrell" at Jun 11, 98 07:33:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > (and, last not least, robotics people tend to have a > > lot of money just because their hardware costs so much :) > > If it is robotics, where is the double redundent safety implemented? > Are they actually moving mass around? it's a demo, i repeat. in reality they will do little more than running a motor with a given speed profile, or move a small assembly. All this will occur in a separate room, since they are telnetting to the box and have vic sending a video of what's going on in the lab. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message