[Open-graphics] Other interesting bits of math to do in FPGAs

[Hamish]

On Wednesday 19 September 2007 09:03, Dieter wrote:
> > Am I too old? Adding logs instead of multiplying (And subtracting instead
> > of dividing) was how I learnt to do multiplication adn division before
> > you werte allowed to use calculators in school exams (Early 1980's in NZ
> > :)
>
> Some of us were using calculators in school exams in the 1970s.  Maybe
> it was a NZ thing?  :-)

Possibly... We weren't allowed to use them till 1982 IIRC... The year I did 
School-Cert...

>
> And writing graphics programs that had to fit in 6 KB of core memory
> (real core, not semiconductor) along with the interpretor (OS?  What's
> that?) and the output device was a teletype with a roll of yellow paper.
>

I'm not that old... We had fancy equipment... CBM PET's in 1980 and in 1983 we 
got C64's... With colour screens!


> Today the kiddies think they are being tortured if they don't have a
> lightening fast 3D eye-candy GUI even though it serves no purpose.

I often think it detracts... Todays ICT courses in the UK are completely 
useless. My kids goto a maths & computing specialist school. What a joke. ICT 
is paced at the slowest muppet in the class and consists of spreadsheets, and 
making webpages using fancy software... They don't even learn what a computer 
consists of until almost the last year of school. (At least maths & the 
sciences are streamed).

H