Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!hydra!cc.helsinki.fi!jalkio From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr10.133943.5922@cc.helsinki.fi> Date: 10 Apr 91 13:39:43 GMT References: <2o7G!rpe1@cs.psu.edu> <14026@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Apr6.194520.5865@cc.helsinki.fi> <1991Apr9.130150.23167@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: University of Helsinki Lines: 25 In article <1991Apr9.130150.23167@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article <1991Apr6.194520.5865@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes: >> > Yeah...wait until you try to do some heavy disk activity while playing >> > a score file on that DSP.... The DSP requires the *CPU* to feed it >> > the sound data; it can't go get it on its own. > >> Uhh? Quite a hopeless argument here. So, you think NeXT's would be >> better if they didn't have the DSP at all? > > No, they would be better if they had an operating system with the context switch > and interrupt service times to support the DSP. The Amiga can play scores with > no jerks and hesitations while doing heavy disk activity, or even while doing > heavy CPU-dependent activity like ray-tracing... even on a 68000. Strange. I have heard several people saying that they _can_ play very complicated songs (like Mozart's symphonies) simultaneously with heavy-duty number crunching applications without any problems on the NeXT. I have also tried it myself, and playing songs with the DSP didn't seem to affect the performance noticeably. > -- > Peter da Silva. `-_-' > . Jouni Alkio, Helsinki, Finland