Re: porting linux to DSP

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:38:04 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Marc Mutz wrote:
> You cannot do 8-way HD recording w/ realtime effect processing on a
> 68040. You can do on the smallest 56K. That said, I'll second that the
> 68K was too slow.
> My posting was meant to show that if you give the people DSP's then it
> will find uses for it...

In 1989 a DSP was probably a good idea.

In 1999 it is basically pointless.

-Dan

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