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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: FAQ: best currently supported sound card?
To: dkelly@nebula.tbe.com (David Kelly)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 04:38:32 +0200 (MET DST)
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> Luigi Rizzo writes:
> > overkill. Even if you pre-compose single bits of '0' and '1', at 300
> > baud that's 3ms each or 24 samples/bit, and you can easily concatenate the
> > samples in software for almost no CPU or memory overhead. Now a nice
> > thing would be to try soft decoding!
> 
> Hmm. There are sound cards using AMD DSP's out there. Any pre-existing 
> support for a FreeBSD interface to such a DSP?

not that i am aware of.

> Was there an AMD DSP on the GUS? Or was it so embedded that one 
> couldn't directly get to it?

not directly accessible (i don't even think it was a real DSP).

	cheers
	luigi

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