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Re: cryptophone ideas

To: [email protected] (Phil G. Fraering)
Subject: Re: cryptophone ideas
From: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 13:34:14 -0500 (EDT)
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Phil G. Fraering" at Apr 19, 94 05:39:13 pm
Reply-To: [email protected]
Sender: [email protected]

> >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         [email protected]      scifi!angmar!uri 	N2RIU
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- Re: cryptophone ideas
  - From: "Phil G. Fraering" <[email protected]>

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