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From: Stainless Steel Rat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: MD-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 3:46 AM
Subject: Re: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface
> But your Mazda Miata (your "consumer sports car") needs a lot of
> supertuning to even think about competing with my "stock" Shelby Cobra
> GT-350. The analogy is not all that good, though.
I never was very good with analogies.....
The point is that the ATRAC chip in the MD only has one task to perform and
it is very good at it. The Pentium chip in the PC has a lot of tasks to
*oversee* - it is not actually performing all of them, it has other systems
to do that. The graphics card is handling the display, the sound card is
handling processing sound (even 3D positioning in some cases) and there are
also extra processor/controller chips handling other aspects of system
operation. This means the main CPU isn't actually doing as much as you would
think until you need to perform a lot more calculations - it spends a lot of
time "idle". The effect of this is that it has a lot more "time" to spare on
running intense calculations that you would expect it to. I still maintain
that it is not impossible for a real-time or faster ATRAC encoder to be
produced, I just wonder what the system specification would be in order for
it to run fast enough. My reckoning is that the spec. would be a lot lower
than some would have us believe.
Magic
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is wisdom and understanding applied to the power of vibration."
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