Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!saturn!ssyx!ulmo From: ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (scritzifchisted ulmo qzutvchsxik) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Connecting the NeXT box to phone lines -- Where is my RJ11?? Summary: TI DSP34010 used in Trailblazer ... is the TB all SW? Keywords: NeXT modem DSP34010 Trailblazer Message-ID: <5165@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 18 Oct 88 05:50:06 GMT References: <10639@reed.UUCP> <24824@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <10383@s.ms.uky.edu> <17500@gatech.edu> Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems, comp.sys.next Lines: 22 In article <17500@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) writes: | In article <10383@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron) writes: | | >I opened up my trailblazer to see which DSP chip it had. Telebit | >had one marked "DSP34010", is that the TI chip? Anyway, it's certainly | >not the same one as in the NeXT machine. | | The 34010 is actually the TI graphics chip. Interestingly, it is also a | pretty sharp 5MIPS or so general purpose processor. They have a CCITT Group | 3 & 4 (aka fax) image compression package that runs as fast as the dedicated | AMD fax compression chips. I never thought of it as a modem chip, but it | makes a kind of sense... | | >It woulda been kinda neat to have a software trailblazer :-) | | I don't see why its not possible. My understanding (sure to be flawed) is | that the PEP protocol used by the Trailblaser is a software only protocol. It | should not be difficult to code a 56001 version of PEP, if this is true. Anyone know? -brad allen