Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple II Forever! Message-ID: <14518@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 15 Apr 91 22:29:56 GMT References: <9104141554.AA15358@apple.com> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 21 In article <9104141554.AA15358@apple.com> MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes: >On Sat, 13 Apr 91 16:30:00 CST said: >> Hey! What about my GS with the ensonic processor??? Thats a co- >>processor, and we've had that since what, 1986? And about that comment about >>Apple being hardware stingy, read my upcoming mac of the month article... >Is a co-processor a co-processor if it steals cycles from the main CPU? >I'm not insinuating (?SP?) that it's not,... I really don't know. Does >anyone else? Steals cycles? Isn't it correct that once you dump stuff into the sound RAM, the CPU doesn't have to do diddley until you have to dump more data into the sound RAM? Many a time has a game crashed and left the sound playing forever.. (Cough, err.. uhh... I guess that's not a great example.. heh heh) -- /unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu Apple IIGS Forever! WANT ULTIMA VI //e or GS?-mail me.\ \CHEAP CDs info-mail me. McIntosh Junior: The Power to Crush the Other Kids. /