[lug] [Arguably OT] Resources Required for MP3/OGG Playback

[Nate Duehr]

Definitely OT... sorry all...  :-)

Just thought it'd be a fun trip down ye olde memory lane.

(Would that be core memory?  Heh... I had a piece of that stuff lying around
somewhere... someone must have thrown it out... some of us -- he mumbles
with an evil eye toward he bedroom where spouse is sleeping -- just aren't
good little packrats!  Can't say I ever used a machine that used that stuff,
but it was a cool visual/hands-on way to visualize the electronics evolution
for how individual bits had to get their charge/refresh cycles to keep the
bits from twiddling!  GRIN... all those coils around donut shaped ferrous
cores... sigh... coooool.)

Any one of the co-processors "counts" I'd say.  :-)

Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wagner, Carl" <Carl.Wagner at Level3.com>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:36 PM
Subject: RE: [lug] [Arguably OT] Resources Required for MP3/OGG Playback


Are you talking the real deal 8087?

I have done a 8087, 80287, 80387 (it was a IIT brand, a clone of a 387)

Carl.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Duehr [mailto:nate at natetech.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:11 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] [Arguably OT] Resources Required for MP3/OGG Playback


> Remembering back to when I used one, MP3 playback on a P200MMX used only
> a few percent of the CPU.  I would guess that a 486 or maybe even a 386
> would be able to handle it.

I'd stick with the 486 DX2/66 or higher.  Although a 386 with a math
co-processor might work.  :-)

(That'll scare someone outta their shorts... who here remembers adding a
math co-processor to your machine?  Hands?  LOL...)

Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com


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