[Elecraft] Understanding the KX3 Block Diagram

[Jessie Oberreuter]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Alan Bloom wrote:
> That's what I did in the P3.  A single inexpensive, low-power, 40 MIPS
> processor does all [...] Just think if you did the same thing with a 3
> GHz, quad-core Pentium processor!  The possibilities are mind-boggling.

      ROFL!  Yes!  The amount of CPU power we're sitting in front of is
truly mind-bending!  I'm hacking a reasonably peppy Smalltalk VM on a
10mhz Z80; I do most of my personal development on a 12 year old 200mhz
laptop -- "reasonably peppy" on a 10mhz CPU translates to "immediate" at
200mhz, and "instanteneous" on my 3ghz quad-core at work :).  'Course, at
work we're still tied to static languages running on dozens of layers of
abstraction that manage to load some of the world's fastest boxes back
down to "reasonably peppy", but that's the price we pay when we spread
development across hundreds or even thousands of engineers.  -kb7psg