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From: mdr@omepd (Michael Rutenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Motorola DSP56000  -->  NeXT
Keywords: signal processing, crunch, C, optimization, DSPs in normal computers
Message-ID: <3593@omepd>
Date: 20 Jun 88 17:06:38 GMT
References: <17468@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: mdr@omepd.UUCP (Michael Rutenberg)
Organization: Reed College  &  Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
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The NeXT workstation, to be announced any year now, has a DSP in it
which I have been lead to believe is a DSP56000.  Julius Smith,
formerly of Stanford CCRMA, is at NeXT, presumably doing music stuff.

My understanding is that the DSP is used for:
	Music & sound
	high speed built in modem (for free!)
	high speed numeric computation
	your dreams (quickly)

The machine will come with a C compiler for the 56000 so you can (for
example) do compute intensive C work on the DSP.

Most of this has been pieced together from various informal sources.
I am a student normally and quite clearly respresent only my own views.

Mike Rutenberg
Reed College