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From: lshaw@walt.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw)
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Subject: Re: Future of Amiga
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Date: 10 May 90 00:53:06 GMT
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In article <10232@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) writes:

>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.
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I hope so!  Considering they already run at 7 _MEGA_hertz, that would be quite
a slowdown!  44.1 KHz 16 bit stereo sound translates to taking 176K off the bus
a second.  Since the bus is 16 bits, 88200 fetches must occur a second.  My
calculations say that would take about 1-2% of the bandwidth of the bus.
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