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Re: Sound question





Jeff Blakeney wrote:

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:37:20 -0500, "Reginald Blue"
<Reginald_Blue@hotmail.com> wrote:


The overhead for playing (decoding) them is fairly low.  The overhead for
encoding them is tremendous.  Whether a "real" // gs could keep up with
playing them isn't clear to me though.  You certainly wouldn't want one
trying to encode one though.


I couldn't play MP3's on my 486DX4-100 machine without reducing the
quality of playback and even then, it sometimes skipped.  Keep in mind
that that processor has a built in match co-processor which almost all
IIgs' lack.



I know what a MATH coprocessor is, but what's a MATCH coprocessor?

;-)