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From: edlee@chinet.chi.il.us (Edward Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: DSP56001 query
Message-ID: <8765@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 23 Jun 89 15:01:04 GMT
Reply-To: edlee@chinet.chi.il.us (Edward Lee)
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I saved the following message from Fidonet or Internet last year.  Is there
any truth to the second paragraph about the Motorola DSP56001 being capable
of acting as a V.32 modem at the price Eric Larson mentions?


>From:    Eric Larson
>To:      All                                      Msg #18, 25-Oct-88 09:52am
>Subject: High Speed MUCH Cheaper?
[....]
>BUT, a new player has emerged - the Motorola DSP56001 - it's a digital signal
>processor, basically a very fast A/D + D/A converter that has appeared in some
>speciallized Mac II sound boards, and the new NeXT machine. The interesting
>thing about this chip is that it's powerful enough to be programmed to act as
>a V.32 modem (Motorola claims they have completed the low level programming
>for this application), and the price is $56. In single quantities yet. This
>thing has been shipping since March 1987 -....



-Ed L