Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:06:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floating point usage within the kernel - howto ? Message-ID: <199806111006.MAA22351@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199806110933.TAA18520@cimlogic.com.au> from "John Birrell" at Jun 11, 98 07:33:08 pm
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> 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
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