Re: S-parameter test sets

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:55:08 -0700, "Joel Kolstad"
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>"Terry Given" <my_name@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> At the
>> time I was looking for a *cheap* hardware solution that did its own
>> buffering and error checking, so as not to burden the poor old system
>> processor, which was being beaten to death numerically.
>
>Intel is very much a fan of trying to do all the processing on their CPU --
>they'd rather have people build $10 "WinModems" (signal processing is done on
>the CPU) than $10 "smart" modems!
>

P4's and up suck on numeric processing. That's why I switched last
year to AMD Athlon 64... runs circles around a P4.

...Jim Thompson
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