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In article <1992Apr16.180415.26582@cs.ucla.edu>, esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu (Eskandar Ensafi) writes:
|> 
|> Why not NeXT? I mean, Ariel has come out with PC boards using the 96001  
|> "Multimedia" DSP chip from Motorola.
|>   
|> For those of you who don't know, the chip is binary-compatible with the 56001  
|> that NeXT uses and it is called a multimedia chip because, being a 32-bit  
|> version of the 24-bit 56001, it can process sound and graphics simultaneously.
|> 
|> a 33-MHz 96002 processes 16.5 MIPS and 49 MFLOPS.  The dual 88110 CPUs being  
|> rumored lately beat this chip in the MIPS, but do they have the MFLOPS?  I  
|> think it would be a good idea to use it in both 040 and (if ever) 88110  
|> systems.
|> 
|> What do you think?
|> 
|> Eskandar Ensafi --- esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu, esky@mayhem.icsl.ucla.edu


Another interesting question is why didn't NeXT replace the 56001 with the 96002
when they introduced the new turbo's?  this should have been a simple mod given all the other
things they have been doing to the board any way.

john.