🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991Jun25.204416.12144@rand.org> edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
>In article <4188@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> carroll@ssc-vax.UUCP (Jeff Carroll) writes:
>>"comp.music" is for the discussion of computing related to music. In order
>>to argue that synth users should not post here, you'd have to argue that
>>a digital synth is not a computer. Tough sledding, if you ask me.

>It's snowing in June.  If a synth is always to be considered a
>computer, then so should be most microwave ovens.  Both are appliances
>that happen to use computers internally.

Microprocessors are not central to the function of a microwave oven.
There are microwave ovens that *don't* have microprocessors in them.

To the contrary, a digital synthesizer is *nothing but* a computer that
has been customized for the purpose of making music. In other words, a
product of the computer music industry.

I'm starting to see snow, but it's all on my CRT :^)


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Jeff Carroll		carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com