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- On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Magnus Kollberg wrote:
- > Ehhmmm... this is probably a very stupied question, but...
- > Can't you make a mod player on the FPU in some way?? :-)
- > I have never heard about anyone doing it, but 96-bit accuracy sound good
- > for the sound quality. If you can't do a modplayer, maybe a vector
- > synthesizer? Sounds like a cool and wonderful crazy project to me to
- > implemetn some kind og music on the FPU. I understand that it can't
- > probably be sued for anything, but... :-))
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- Well, some of the techie minded will probably correct me on this, but I
- think the co-pro just adds "new" instructions to the CPU - it's not a
- seperate entity like the DSP is (i.e. it's own memory, bus, etc...).
- Nice idea, though. As DLT said, "Think literally, think laterally".
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- Neil.
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