[rescue] RAIP

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 08:48:44PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
>   Actually, there's a DSP56001 chip in each NeXT system.  *That* could
> do some real work, leaving the M68K and the rest of the NeXT machine to
> be a communications support platform.
> 
>      -Dave MGuire

I actually asked about using the DSP to do things like Mersenne prime search
and other stuff.  The problem is the amount of memory, I think.

There WAS a little box that you connected to it that made for a 14.4 or 9600
baud modem, plus did fax send/receive and had a software controlled
voicemail system, that let you do chaining of touch tone menus, etc.  Pretty
cool. 

./patrick