Xref: utzoo comp.sys.misc:1499 comp.lang.c:10857 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!dogie!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!pyramid!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!omepd!mdr 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 Lines: 18 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