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From: poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: DAC
Keywords: DAC
Message-ID: <16937@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 19 Dec 90 07:15:48 GMT
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In article <3020@unccvax.uncc.edu> cbenda@unccvax.uncc.edu (carl m benda) writes:
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>ACK.... correct me if I am wrong, but I always thought that "SAMPLING RATE"
>applied to ANALOG --> DIGITAL conversion and NOT the other way around.

Nope. The sampling rate refers to the relationship between the
discrete-time signal and the continuous time signal that it is considered
to represent, not necessarily to the actual sampling process. So it is
quite legitimate to refer to the sampling rate of a DAC, and this usage
is quite common.