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- From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
- Subject: Re: Falcon DSP -> standard modem & fax?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.110545.113600@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
- Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne, F. R. Germany
- References: <94611@bu.edu> <1992Aug27.013832.11651@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 11:05:45 GMT
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- In <1992Aug27.013832.11651@athena.cs.uga.edu> kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson) writes:
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- >The NeXT is a fairly popular research workstation, partially because of the
- >built-in DSP (the same one in the Falcon). With the right interfaces for
- >the DSP port, it can take in gobs and gobs of data and spit out results
- >before you can say "go!" Okay, maybe that's somewhat of an exaggeration,
- >but a DSP can do some mighty impressive things. Perhaps (and that's a big
- >"perhaps") the Falcon will also be used by some researchers on a budget.
-
- I wouldn't say the "perhaps" is that big, at least not here in
- Germany. Ataris are quite popular at research institutes over
- here -- remember that "Atari computers in tv" thread when there
- was this report about two German nobel laureates showing one of
- them in his lab which was full of Mega ST's. There definitely are
- people who are familiar with Ataris and have the capabilities of
- creating the hard- and software for such realtime data analysis
- purposes.
-
- Greetinx, Jan
-
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