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In article <2986@news.cerf.net> billabs@nic.cerf.net (Bill Romanowski) writes:
 
> SGI takes a more specific approach with it's DSP. It's used only as an audio
> resource for the system. No DSP coding support is provided (that I could  
find)
> for math or serial port hacking. But the audio is clean, fast and useable up  
to
> DAT rates.
> 
SGI will _never_ support user programming of the DSP.  Ask them and they'll  
tell you the same.  They think all DSP-type processing should be handled by  
the CPU but they've made modifications to the OS to support real-time  
scheduling.  The DSP is used as an I/O controller and runs a real-time kernel  
of its own to handle up to 4 channels of audio data in or out.  Possible  
future revisions will include a faster DSP for more channels but the apparent  
limit at this time is not the DSP but the DMA controller.  In truth, I just  
regret that you're stuck with only two channels on the Indigo.  Sigh.

stephen
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