The ideal phone might be based on CPU's, RAM, and DSP's, with no DES chips or anything like that.
Probaly CPU is not necessary...
Have you seen the prices of used original NeXT equipment lately, or just the prices of single system boards from back in the 68030 era?
No. Care to enlighten?
Anyway, why do you need a DSP? I have read in several places that DSP's are going to be "replaced" by the CPU as time goes on and the CPUs just get more and more powerful.
Since, as somebody has already mentioned, DSP is a CPU optimized for price/performance in digital signal processing, the statement above sounds funny. DSP chips will always be cheaper than general purpose CPUs offering at least comparable performance. -- Regards, Uri uri@watson.ibm.com scifi!angmar!uri N2RIU ----------- <Disclamer>