pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) (10/22/88)
In article <2881@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >[ For the comp.sys.next people, they've been talking about using NeXT as > a realtime music synthesiser, based on the DSP chip... ] > >One thing to consider. The NeXT machine is running [Mach], >which is not a realtime operating system. A synth is a pretty hard- >realtime environment. There are at least two music synthesis systems that I am aware of that run in real time under Smalltalk. Smallktalk is not a real-time environment either and you *can* get glitches, but modern Smalltalk mostly do incremental garbage collection and are smart about explicitly freeing (compiler-)recognizable garbage. It might be a problem on the NeXT box, but I doubt it. ;-D on ( Bias, bias, bias, how about some equalization? ) Pardo -- pardo@cs.washington.edu {rutgers,cornell,ucsd,ubc-cs,tektronix}!uw-beaver!june!pardo