On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 12:07 AM, Georg Tuparev wrote:
On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 01:55 Europe/Amsterdam, Warren Nagourney
wrote:
For the last few years I have been using an old turbo color
NeXTstation for this purpose - it has a built-in DSP and I have been
able to use it to control an experiment using the digital
inputs/outputs from the DSP and count photons (up to 1 MHz) using the
DSP. I am delighted with the performance of the NeXT (for an '040
machine) and ease of programming (in Obj. C) and want to upgrade to
one of my old beige and BW OSX boxes. Unfortunately, the Macs didn't
come with a DSP, so I need to add one (the NeXT also had DSP drivers
in the free MusicKit). (The alternative Labview approach to DAQ is
completely unacceptable to me, with its limitations on the Mac)
Yeah! Mathematica runs on my old good 25MHz pizza NeXT station faster
then on my 1GHz G4. If Steve & Co. are so crazy about music, I wonder
why they do not take the next obvious step and put DSP in every Mac.
Surely you must be kidding! The '040 was plenty fast for its time, but
is several orders of magnitude slower than a 1 GHz G4. NeXTstep did a
very good job of providing a decently fast GUI on much slower hardware
than OSX, but it does a lot less than OSX (much of which could be left
out without causing any harm to the OSX user experience, but that is
another thread...)
Steve left out a DSP because it is a natural 3rd party item (on a PCI
card). I just need one which has OSX drivers.
... just dreaming...
Georg Tuparev
Tuparev Technologies
Klipper 13
1186 VR Amstelveen
The Netherlands
Mobile: +31-6-55798196
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