Re: porting linux to DSP

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:24:29 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Marc Mutz wrote:
> When Atari put the Motorola 56001 DSP in the Falcon computer, it was The
> Right Thing(tm). Look at the sw that emerged for the platform: HD
> recording et al. There was also an image viewer that used the DSP to
> decompress JPG images.

I owned an Atari Falcon. The DSP as implemented in the system was a joke.
IMHO they would have gained more from putting a 68040 in the system than a
68030 with 56001. Or even a 68030 at 33mhz rather than 16.

-Dan

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