ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (scritzifchisted ulmo qzutvchsxik) (10/18/88)
In article <17500@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) writes: | In article <10383@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron) writes: | | >I opened up my trailblazer to see which DSP chip it had. Telebit | >had one marked "DSP34010", is that the TI chip? Anyway, it's certainly | >not the same one as in the NeXT machine. | | The 34010 is actually the TI graphics chip. Interestingly, it is also a | pretty sharp 5MIPS or so general purpose processor. They have a CCITT Group | 3 & 4 (aka fax) image compression package that runs as fast as the dedicated | AMD fax compression chips. I never thought of it as a modem chip, but it | makes a kind of sense... | | >It woulda been kinda neat to have a software trailblazer :-) | | I don't see why its not possible. My understanding (sure to be flawed) is | that the PEP protocol used by the Trailblaser is a software only protocol. It | should not be difficult to code a 56001 version of PEP, if this is true. Anyone know? -brad allen <ulmo@splat.aptos.ca.us | ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu>