cryptophone ideas
uri at watson.ibm.com
uri at watson.ibm.com
Wed Apr 20 10:34:35 PDT 1994
> >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.
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Regards,
Uri uri at watson.ibm.com scifi!angmar!uri N2RIU
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