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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Future of Amiga
Message-ID: <10232@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 9 May 90 22:43:46 GMT
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In article <1990Apr29.231644.11461@uunet!unhd> jwn712@unhd.unh.edu.UUCP (Jason W Nyberg) writes:
>Flame me mercilessly if I am wrong, but the amiga uses 8-bit sound right?

Right so far.

>I want to see 16 bit sound now.  then we could have true cd quality sound as
>well as everything else we love about amy. (how much of a difference would 
>the extra 8 bits make?

Not enough to make it CD quality.  16 bits at 14 KHz won't do, and it's
going to be awhile before we see the custom chips running at 44.1 KHz.

-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell University