Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!csdev!ll1a!spl1!laidbak!att!ucbvax!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpccc!brown From: brown@hpccc.HP.COM (Jeffrey L. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Re: NeXT sound Message-ID: <8549@spl1.UUCP> Date: 2 Nov 88 23:58:23 GMT References: Sender: news@spl1.UUCP Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporate Computing Center Lines: 26 And now for something completely different (and, I'm sure that no one cares about :-).... / hpccc:comp.sys.next / cb29+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chad Kavanaugh Bisk) / 3:15 pm Oct 29, 1988 / The decisions NeXT made regarding their sound chips and overall sound quality seem quite understandable. My reasoning is as follows: ... 4) The 8-bit codec (just what is "codec" short for anyway?) is plenty powerful ... -- Chad Bisk -- cb29@andrew.cmu.edu ---------- codec: coder-decoder, converts analog signals into digital codes for transmission and then converts back to analog. Sort of like an "inverse modem." Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. Jeff "Hey, that networking class finally paid off" Brown HP Corporate Computing Center brown%hpccc@hplabs.hp.com