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- From: ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: DSP on Optional Card (was Re: 4000)
- Date: 13 Sep 92 18:43:02
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
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- Message-ID: <AHANSFOR.92Sep13184302@wpi.wpi.edu>
- References: <1992Sep12.214452.27040@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- <1992Sep13.043008.25454@news.iastate.edu>
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- In-reply-to: barrett@iastate.edu's message of Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:30:08 GMT
-
- >>>>> On Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:30:08 GMT, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) said:
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- barrett> In article <1992Sep12.214452.27040@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> aciceran@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (A. J. Ciceran) writes:
-
- barrett> The problem with putting the DSP on an 'optional' card
- barrett> instead of making it standard hardware on at least one system
- barrett> is software. There already is at leastone third-party Zorro
- barrett> II card available which uses the same DSP that Commodore will
- barrett> be using, but how much software is available for it? The
- barrett> Commodore card will almost certainly sell better than the one
- barrett> from the third- party company, but not much better. After
- barrett> about a year, I will be amazed if the installed base of
- barrett> Amigas with Commodore DSP cards is even 1% what it would have
- barrett> been had Commodore released the DSP as standard hardware in
- barrett> at least one system.
-
- barrett> ---
- barrett> | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- barrett> --------------------------------------------------
-
- That is a bit of a truism is it not. Certainly if all Amigas came
- with a DSP then there would be more DSPs out there than if the Amiga
- came without. I prefer the modular approach so people can buy a DSP
- when the can afford one and take it to the next motherboard when its
- out.
-
- As for software, who know how many programs would have used a DSP. If
- Commodore offers standard OS support or libraries for it then that may
- encourage people to buy it.
-
- -- Andrew Hansford
- ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu
-
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