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From: rlp@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Bob Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Will the Next sell?
Summary: I want that modem!
Keywords: modem news cube next
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Date: 1 Dec 89 06:28:38 GMT
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In article <1989Nov30.101515.2084@uunet!dtgcube> ed@uunet!dtgcube (Edward Jung) writes:

>It is possible, in theory, to implement a 19.2k baud modem on the NeXT machine
>using the DSP and some relatively cheap hardware. 

[details about the DSP modem deleted]

>A Trailblazer 2 is expensive (but nice!); the roughly 14+k throughput, however,
>makes for a reasonable medium of data exchange for moderate sized files (say,
>in the low-megabytes range).  It's also faster than mail-order.

And then I could get a news feed to read at home :)!  Did I actually
read somewhere that the DSP could actually simultaneously carry out
modem operations (maybe not at 19.2Kbaud, but even 4800 would be nice)
and other functions (math coprocessing, etc)?

Bob