On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Alex Holden wrote: > Surprisingly little applications actually use FP, and even fewer _need_ to > use FP (they were just written that way because it is taken for granted > that x86 processors higher than 486DX always have an FP unit). An example > is XAudio who, instead of struggling to get the NetWinder to play MP3s > using floating point emulation, simply rewrote it to use the StrongArm > integer multiply instructions, which are very fast (1 or 2 instructions > for a 32*32 multiply). Thank you for answering a question before I had the chance to ask. I was wondering if the Netwinder was powerful enough to play mp3s, and now I know--and more specifically, I know that xaudio, the particular player I was planning on using, is available for it. A couple of questions, though. First, does playing an mp3 leave any CPU cycles to do other things, or does that put the Netwinder at it's limit? And is it possible to attach, in any form, an IDE drive to a Netwinder? I really need a very large (10GB+) drive, and a SCSI disk that size is ridiculously expensive (and probably unobtainable in a 2.5" form factor, to boot). Paul Archer ---------------------------------------------------- A key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes And Ladders with greased rungs. -- Terry Pratchett, "Wyrd Sisters" ---------------------------------------------------- -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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