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From: jbn35564@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson)
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Subject: Re: Can DSP's multitask?
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Date: 5 Jun 91 01:24:32 GMT
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In <1991Jun4.211914.623@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:

>Lately I've gotten into having lots of sonic stuff on
>my NeXT, and noticed that (no surprise) the DSP can only 
>do one thing at a time.

Does this situation of only being able to do one thing at a time improve with
more DSP ram?  I don't know why I'm thinking this, just wondering what NeXT
is selling additional DSP ram for, I suppose.

According to the NeXT Edu. discount for University of Illinois, 96KB of DSP
memory expansion (part #N7013) is $137.00 plus shipping and UI processing
fees.

But I also agree, that I could easily see myself doing multiple things with
the DSP simultaneously (listening to music and processing beeps from terminal
window(s) I have running, in my case).

>Barry Merriman
>UCLA Dept. of Math
>UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
>barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)   barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (NeXTMail)

Jeff
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