Re: Staring Gnome ???

[Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, John Griffiths wrote:
> >Well there is SOMETHING in /dev/called dsp.......
> >
> >Can anyone shed some light on this?
> 
> i believe the dsp is the digital sound processor

Actually, DSP == Digital Signal Processor

Think of it as a CPU with built in ADCs, DACs (analog-to-digital and
digital-to-analog converters)  and microcode to handle signal filtering
and transformations digitally (as opposed to in the analog realm with
resistors, capacitors and inductors).


later,

	Bruce