[LAU] OT: Interesting article on MIDI timing

[Bob van der Poel]

> Hmmm, I believe someone wondered how the Atari ST's "6809" processor
> could outperform newer processors? Among other things, it used a 68000
> processor, not a 6809.
>


I had MIDI working on a Radio Shack Color Computer with a 6809 playing
multiple channels to an outboard synth. No problems, esp. considering
that the computer had to emulate a midi port with a bit-banging serial
port. Mine you, that was all the computer was doing :)

But, I still do wonder why with the super CPU speeds, advanced
instruction sets, buckets of memory, cache, fast storage, etc it's
still a challenge to do proper midi or recording on our computers.


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