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...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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