| I think Windows NT boxes are a great alternative to the typically high
priced SGIs and SUNs. One of the advantages of the NT operating system is
that it can support up to 4 Pentium processors (V 4.0), giving you lots of
"horsepower". NT5.0 may support between 6-8 Pentium processors...
Another nice thing is that if you can't afford to buy more than one
processor at a time, you can get a board that will support 4, and add them
as you can afford them.
There is not much, if any, commercial support for audio programs
specifically designed for NT because unfortunately, NT has only been widely
used in the corporate world. However, if you are familiar with low level
API calls, you can write some really powerful real-time synth apps that
utilize multiple audio cards....I've been working on a few myself...Most of
the commercial Win95 32-bit audio programs I've tried work just fine in NT
as well. No DirectX stuff though...:{
I do alot of dynamic web site development on NT boxes for a living and I
think that the future of BillySoft's Wintel Land is in the NT operating
system. The best bang for the buck is in the multiprocessor NT based
systems in my opinion....this is good news for those of us who can't go
work on hotdog university machines any more and can't afford to buy one for
ourselves.
Dustin Barlow
http://www.omnids.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Piche Jean [SMTP:pichej@ERE.UMontreal.CA]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 4:19 PM
To: Jim Stevenson
Cc: csound@noether.ex.ac.uk; tlv@tuna.net
Subject: Re: realtime csound
>
> Which does it better in quad, an SGI or Sun, or another work station?
> Are these faster than the fastest PC with which 4 chanel sound card?
>
I think the sgi is the only workstation with quad output (and thats the
Indy only -- O2 has 8 output with the RAD card)... I'll venture that the
sgi is among the faster machines but thta is slowly being eroded by newer
Pentium(a) and G3s (but these will not in general do multi-track audio
output)...
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pichej@ERE.Umontrea
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