well, bugger it! I agree chuck. Shaun.. "Has anyone ever tasted an "END"? Are they really bitter?" EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends on www.jong.com:6667 On Thu, 17 May 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > This discussion is improving as it proceeds, I think! > > One more factor to consider is the desirability of offloading peripheral > tasks to peripheral processors so that the central processor(s) do not > have to service absolutely everything that happens inside the > cabinet. Input-Output tasks are ideal candidates for offloading from the > CPU. That is done in IDE devices, in video cards, in real modems (as > opposed to Win modems), in keystroke processing inside the keyboard, > etcetera. Software speech synthesis is a fairly heavy duty processing > load, and if it can be handed off to an 80186 or whatever, that is very > good news for the CPU. > > Chuck > > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > The Moon is Waning Crescent (30% of Full) > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
