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- From: swiet@poincare.cs.jhu.edu (Alexander Swietlicki)
- Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.193504.24815@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
- References: <1992Dec13.211119.22172@qb.rhein-main.de> <1992Dec16.150405.613@pencom.com> <92352.110046NLF102@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:35:04 GMT
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- In article <92352.110046NLF102@psuvm.psu.edu> <NLF102@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- > I've read all the posts on the NeXT RISC workstation and the rumor of the
- >new processor that NeXT wants to use. I have come to this conclusion:
- > The chip should:
- > 1. Be available from multiple vendors.
- > 2. Be fast enough to replace the DSP and compression chips.
-
- Why lose the DSP? Why bog down the CPU with all those other
- functions? Have chips for sound, compression, graphics/PostScript, etc.
- Running ScorePlayer and BackSpace works nicely. Running ModPlayer and
- BackSpace doesn't. Add compression to that and watch the system halt --
- I don't care how fast the processor is...it will happen.
- Take a look at the Amiga. By not loading down the CPU, it's able
- to make a 68000 look as fast as a 68040 when doing it's fancy graphics/
- sound demos...
- BTW...I think the DSP would be best left for other applications,
- and another processor be used for sound. Hell...the Apple IIgs had that
- Ensoniq chip...
-
- Alex
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