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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <17721@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 16:30:55 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.194127.20625@rice.edu> <17564@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Jan15.015644.24380@rice.edu> <1991Jan15.024807.25384@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1160@pdxgate.UUCP> <17613@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Jan15.202608.16902@rice.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
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In article <1991Jan15.202608.16902@rice.edu> news@rice.edu (News) writes:
>In article <17613@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>|> You pay $2.00 or less for a CD quality (44.1/48kHz 
>|> samples, 16 bit resolution) stereo D-A these days. 

>Then why didn't/doesn't Commodore put it in its computers?????

We already have stereo sound in the system, so there's no overriding need for 
yet another way to make sound.  Sure, the built-in sound isn't CD quality.  
There may come a time when it makes sense to do just that, though there's 
always a limit on what features you have time to add to a system when you're 
developing it.  Adding additional sound devices to an Amiga system is more 
complex than adding sound to a machine without sound, since you need to 
consider control and mixing of multiple sound channels.  So this already costs
a bit more than it would to drop into a system without sound.  We had a great 
deal of new things to worry about on the A3000.  Additional sound would be nice, 
sure, but it wouldn't buy you much.  Games aren't going to use it, because that
same hardware isn't on the A500.  Musicians aren't going to use it; they have 
MIDI keyboards to actually generate music, and use the Amiga for sequencing and 
all, but not usually as a sound generator.  
-- 
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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