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On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Ronnie Bell wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Piotr Potulski wrote: > > I have read that > > for real time deco computing (using all data we actualy know) necesery > > computing power is 10 CRAYs computers. > > > Nah, in actuality real time deco calculations are EASIER than desktop > model simulations. Look at it this way. If I do a dive woth bottom time of > 90 minutes at about 300 feet I'll get a total dive time of around 10 hours > or so. On my desk top I want to see the results of that calculation in > short order (minutes). If I'm doing it in real time I get TEN HOURS of cpu > time to process the data. It is my position that the 8088 cpu has more > than enough power to do the job. I would have put DECOM on an in water > module but the mechanics of the case and display were more than I wanted > to deal with. > > There isn't that much we can really track that has been experientially > shown to affect decompression with a statistical fit even close to 1 other > than ambient gas pressure and time. > Just my 2 cents worth. > > Safe Diving > r.b. > > But algorithms present availiable use statistical data (like deco tabels) and I was writing about real, personal data (i.e. level of nitrogen in your body) measured, not statisticaly computed. Piotr _______________________________________________________________________ Piotr Potulski Post: Piotr Potulski potulski@cc*.un*.to*.pl* ul. Dyw. Kosciuszkowskiej 12 University of Torun 81-453 Gdynia Institute of Archaeology POLAND _______________________________________________________________________
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