Re: Musings on SEAForth
Gwenhwyfaer <[email protected]>
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On 21/01/2008, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. Some insight into the design decisions. For example, why 18 bits? > It's fine for CD-quality audio but not for DAT-quality, which requires > 24 bits. Yes, but it's amazing how many digital synths still in use today don't even produce CD-quality sound - the M1 runs at 32kHz; the DX7 even lower (and with fewer bits). > Sure, you can get fewer 24-bit cores on a chip than you can > with 18-bit cores, but you can get *more* 16-bit cores, and many more > people have instincts about 16-bit arithmetic than 18-bit arithmetic. It wasn't always thus - remember the PDP-1? > I don't see how you > could *automatically* go from a high-level problem description to > working hardware and software I don't think the Forth philosphy would encourage automatic anything - what it does is make it easy to go across levels. Regards Gwenhwyfaer