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In article <73872@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com says:
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>Matt (01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu) writes:
>>From what some here say, your compiler may be very useful, and interesting t
>>play wait, on the DSP (Digital Signal Processor) chip.  It soundslike it's a
>>pretty handy little chip.
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>Except that the DSP chip has its own instruction set, its own
>compiler, and its own set of intended applications.
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>It can't do general purpose processing, it's not a "math
>coprocessor", and it can't do anything to aid most programs.

And what exactly disqualifies the DSP as a general purpose computer?
It has a memory, a CPU, and I believe enough instructions to make it
capable of universal computation.  Therefore, it can run any program
that your main CPU can run albeit in DSP assembler versus your processor's
assembler.  It's about the neatest thing about the falcon...  Alas in a year
or so everyone is going to have them and from the stats on the 56001
in the Falcon garnered from comp.dsp, they'll have a better one...
FYI Apple and Commodore will be putting in the AT&T DSP3210 chip into
their computers.  It has full floating-point support and both address and data
bus are 32 bit.  The 56001 has only integer instructions built-in and
I believe a 16 bit databus and 24 bit address bus...  I also believe that
the price of DSP boards is probably about to plummet for everybody...
I'd wait and see what people manage to make them do before you make
any conclusions about their capabilities...  I think one could put
together a really nifty pipelined graphics co-processor with a couple
of them....

It's going to be a good year for computers.  I'd advise anyone ready to
upgrade to wait and see what everyone releases this year...

Scott