DSP Stuff: computers with builtin DSP's

[Ben Stuyts]

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, "Quint" wrote:

> Also if you on a quest with a budget don't forget that what started the
> craze was apples usage for programmable lucent dsp's in the 660, 880 av
> (audiovisual) series you can now pluck up from $150-$300, giving you a
> programmable dsp, realtime input & output (hard disk recording) of audio &
> video.
> They was also an early ppc version 601's but I think 6600,8800? which also
> are very cheap.  This is a great way to go if your just learning.

Actually, Steve Job's NeXT computers were there first. (1990?)

They have a Motorola 56002 on board, and it comes with development tools  
(assembler, graphical debugger). Also, they look much neater than Apple's.  
("He said, looking one right in the face.")

NeXT's are cheap too. Their main cpu is only a 68040 on 25 or 33 MHz, so they  
aren't the speediest ones. Although I still prefer them over wintel or mac  
boxes.

There's a very extensive MusicKit software for the NeXT somewhere at  
Stanford.edu. (I think it is at  
http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Software/MusicKit/MusicKit.html, but this  
might be outdated.) It also runs on pc's with NeXTSTEP a certain soundcards.

Best regards,
Ben