[c-nsp] Supervisor 32 Compact Flash

[Robert E. Seastrom]

"David J. Hughes" <bambi at hughes.com.au> writes:

> I fully appreciate that we are talking embedded devices here rather  
> than general purpose computers, but when you see the main  visible  
> supporter of the technology (Apple) dumping it because PowerPC is  
> always way behind the performance curve, I wouldn't be too encouraged  
> by a wide-scaled adoption.

The question is "way behind *what* performance curve?"

When you're talking interrupts/second, not SPECINT, the performance
shoe is rather on the other foot.  :-)

You're probably not playing WoW on your router, and you're hopefully
not using commodity desktop computing platforms in your backbone.

                                        ---rob