re rumours about do in article bd news service uci edu rbarris orion oac uci edu robert c barris writes we got to see the unit displaying full screen movies using the compactvideo codec which was nice very little blockiness showing clips from jaws and backdraft and a very high frame rate to boot like fps acorn replay running on a mhz arm processor the arm is about slower than the arm does this in software off a standard cd rom bit colour at about the same resolution so what if the computer only has bit colour support real time dithering too the d o is supposed to have a couple of dsps the arm being used for housekeeping i m not sure how a centris mhz stacks up against the mhz arm in the do box obviously the arm is faster but how much a mhz arm xx should clock around arm mips say flat out depends really on the surrounding system and whether you are talking arm x or arm xx the latter has a cache and so is essential to run at this kind of speed with slower memory i ll stop saying things there cos i ll hopefully be working for arm after graduation mike ps don t pay heed to what reps from philips say if the d o doesn t beat the pants off di then i ll eat this postscript michael williams part ii computer science tripos mjw phx cam ac uk university of cambridge cymdeithas genedlaethol traddodiad troi teigrod mwythus ben i waered
