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    SubjectRe: Mac mini sound woes
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    On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 11:22 +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
    > No. You didn't get it. I'm taking the view that mixing sound is simply
    > a task you would typically love to make a DSP firmware do.
    > However providing a DSP for sound processing at 44kHZ on the same
    > PCB as an 1GHZ CPU is a ridiculous waste of resources. Thus most
    > hardware
    > vendors out there decided to use the main CPU instead. Thus the
    > "firmware"
    > is simply running on the main CPU now. Now where should it go? I'm
    > convinced
    > that its better to put it near the hardware in the whole stack. You
    > think
    > it's best to put it far away and to invent artificial synchronization
    > problems between different applications putting data down to the
    > same hardware device.

    This is the exact line of reasoning that led to Winmodems.

    Lee

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