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From: vik@lynx.uucp (Vikram Sohal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amigas shipping with 16-bit audio?
Keywords: PAULA SOUND AUDIO MUSIC 16 BIT
Message-ID: <7891@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 90 17:00:17 GMT
References: <1990Jul14.173215.25433@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <5958@hub.ucsb.edu> <1990Jul15.215912.25094@funet.fi>
Reply-To: vik@lynx.UUCP (Vikram Sohal)
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Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc, Campbell CA
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>Have somebody done direct sampling from harddisk yet?

We have done it under LynxOS, our real-time UNIX-compatible OS running
on a (deep intake of breath) 386-AT clone. Using double buffering,
we are able to easily read or write at 176K per second from a SCSI disk and 
write/read to a Analog I/O board for CD-quality sound. Using SCSI, we can
actually get up to a 500Khz sampling rate without the use of any special
chips. I imagine that an Amiga version of our software would run even faster
because of the tightly integrated DMA architecture of the Amiga bus.

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