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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.mtu.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!worldnet.att.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!enews.sgi.com!gazette.engr.sgi.com!candiru!cook From: cook@candiru.engr.sgi.com (Doug Cook) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: 20 Mar 1997 23:23:02 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5gsgsm$c5l@gazette.engr.sgi.com> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5goqrq$5ak$1@news.clinet.fi> <5gpcf9$767@flea.best.net> <5gpf3b$j99@fido.asd.sgi.com> <5gs1de$k3s@flea.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: candiru.engr.sgi.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37496 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6416 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29337 In article <5gs1de$k3s@flea.best.net>, dillon@flea.best.net writes: > Currently, there are very few mediums where disk latency causes a > problem. I can think of only one: Video. Everything else I can think > of has no latency problems because the bandwidth is easily buffered > with a FIFO. Not even multi-track sound editing poses a serious latency > problem for a disk if it doesn't involve synchronization with video. I disagree. Latency is the main bottleneck for multitrack sound editing, particularly where many tracks are involved and short edits are permitted. -Doug