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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ericom!garbod20!etxansk
- From: etxansk@garbo.ericsson.se
- Subject: Use of Falcon's DSP?
- Message-ID: <etxansk.716051298@garbod20>
- Originator: etxansk@garbod20
- Sender: news@ericsson.se
- Nntp-Posting-Host: garbod20.ericsson.se
- Organization: Ericsson
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:08:18 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- I read in Atari ST User (a UK magazine), issue #37, about the
- DSP chip in the new Falcon computer.
-
- If I remember it correctly, they claim that the DSP can handle
- eight sound channels, but also that there are four DMA stereo
- channels.
-
- I don't get it, is the DSP responsible for DMA, or are there
- two types of sound synthesis in the Falcon (DMA _and_ with the
- DSP)?
-
- Also, does anyone know if the DSP will make the Falcon unique
- when it comes to manipulating graphics? (At least as long as
- no other computer or video game company decide to use this
- standard DSP chip for their product.)
-
- Anders Skelander
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