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From: richf@adiron.UUCP (Rick Fanta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next rumours from MacWeek
Message-ID: <441@adiron.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 90 16:46:22 GMT
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Organization: PAR Technology, New Hartford, NY
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Speaking of the next Next, here's a thought that I've had.  Please shoot it down for me.
I've heard rumors on this newsgroup that the new Moto DSP chip (MC96001?) was not avail-
able in time to be incorporated into the new machine.  To do rendering in real-time, though,
the muscle of this chip or a "RISC on steroids" like the i860 seems necessary (or so I'm 
told by people that actually know something ;-).

Why not offer the new chip on an add-in card (separate card or special card that clips
into the motherboard)?  Better yet, why not use the parallel processing capabilities of
the chip (and Mach) and allow multiple (floating point) DSPs to be used in parallel???

What are the problems with this???

All comments appreciated.

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Rick Fanta	PAR Technologies, New Hartford, NY