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Article #4459Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
From: Alexander Swietlicki
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:35
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:35
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In article <92352.110046NLF102@psuvm.psu.edu> <NLF102@psuvm.psu.edu> writes: > I've read all the posts on the NeXT RISC workstation and the rumor of the >new processor that NeXT wants to use. I have come to this conclusion: > The chip should: > 1. Be available from multiple vendors. > 2. Be fast enough to replace the DSP and compression chips. Why lose the DSP? Why bog down the CPU with all those other functions? Have chips for sound, compression, graphics/PostScript, etc. Running ScorePlayer and BackSpace works nicely. Running ModPlayer and BackSpace doesn't. Add compression to that and watch the system halt -- I don't care how fast the processor is...it will happen. Take a look at the Amiga. By not loading down the CPU, it's able to make a 68000 look as fast as a 68040 when doing it's fancy graphics/ sound demos... BTW...I think the DSP would be best left for other applications, and another processor be used for sound. Hell...the Apple IIgs had that Ensoniq chip... Alex
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!blaze.cs.jhu.edu!poincare.cs.jhu.edu!swiet From: swiet@poincare.cs.jhu.edu (Alexander Swietlicki) Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT. Message-ID: <1992Dec17.193504.24815@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> Sender: news@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Usenet news system) Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD References: <1992Dec13.211119.22172@qb.rhein-main.de> <1992Dec16.150405.613@pencom.com> <92352.110046NLF102@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:35:04 GMT Lines: 20