harv at 133 mhz you are dead right, and most notebooks have less c p u power.
What you may not be aware of is that for the first time intel is going to have
real competition from the a m d k 7.
the reason for this is dec, has a server with a processor called alpha, that
computer goes at 800 mhz.
compaque now owns dec and is selling the mother board design to a m d, their
design or bus is 3 times faster than intels p c i bus with b x chip set.
a m d also has hired the guy that designed the alpha chip to design the k7.
so by next summer when win n t 5 is released this technology will make all
software synths work great.
assumeing intel also has to role out new stuff to match it.
plus the 100 mhz memory bus is going to jump to 133 mhz in that same time frame
while the i d e drives will
jump from 33 mhz to 66 mhz.
translation i suspect moores law will not be true this year because the
doubleing of c p u power may increase faster.
hj is aware of this and realizes that n t will roll out at about the same
time.
still i realize that blind people are not going to be able to afford 533 mhz
systems.
but 350 mhz systems will be the low end i suspect, plenty for software synths.
bill cameron
At 07:41 PM 1/22/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I am running a Toshiba satellite laptop with a 133 megahertz processor and
>64 megs of RAM. I come down more on Carol's side of the question where
>performance is concerned, though I've not had experience with the Keynote
>synths. I run Dectalk Access and Eloquence on this laptop, and they are
>satisfactory, but I have had a good deal more problems with the laptop than
>I had anticipated. I am running Dectalk Access and Eloquence on a PC with a
>300 megahertz processor and 128 megs of RAM, and I can't tell the difference
>between the software synts and the Dectalk Express synth I was using until
>last summer. I hope that we see a significant improvement in these software
>synths , because that's the wave of the future where speech is concerned.H-J
>needs to do something about their SAPI standard, and I hope they do it, when
>they make their next upgrade.
>
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