--- "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 19:21, Tony Duell
wrote:
Not a computer, but somewhere I haev a 1200 baud
modem that uses an 8088
as a DSP (A very odd choice...)
Maybe not so odd when you consider what development
tools used to cost for
some of the more uncommon processor chips compared
with what was out there
for the 8088...
Valid point, but I think he was just pointing out
that there were a number of better choices for that
job.
Tony, if you can dig out the make and model, I'd be
interested to hear.
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