[aclug-L] Re: Cheap 486's

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You'll probably want a 486/66 or so for a minimum MP3 player... and then
you're talking about 8-bit monophonic sound.  :-)

My Pentium 75 played 16-bit stereo MP3s okay as long as I wasn't doing
anything else.  If I was to switch between X and console, for instance, the
MP3 would skip rather drastically.


On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 05:15:35PM -0600, Carl D Cravens wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> > Gateway 486SX/33's (some 25's)
> > 8mb RAM (two 4mb SIMMs)
> 
> Here's a question for everybody... is this fast enough to run an MP3
> player if the system was stripped down and dedicated to the task?
> 
> If not, does anybody know what a minimum might be?
> 
> (I keep thinking I should be able to find *something* for a box like this
> to do, but I can't.  I hate to see cheap but working hardware go by just
> because I couldn't think of something to use it for.)  
> 
> --
> Carl D Cravens (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)
> Hey! Don't pick up that Dog! !@#$*!?% NO TERRIER
> 

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