per a friend whois a netbsd developer a 68040 at 40 mhz can play a 128
kbit 44 khz mp3.

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Matthew Bryant wrote:

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> On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 11:46  PM, setient wrote:
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> > i only have one mac vga adaptor BUT i am also wondering is there a way
> > to
> > play an mp3 on a quadra 650 a lc III or a centris 610 under netbsd?
> >
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> I'm thinking no.... Someone can correct me, but I can't image that one
> of these 68k machines will have enough horsepower to play mp3s. Really
> your only option is to get a HUGE hard disk, and store your files as
> waves (.aif) or use one of the early quicktime audio compression
> codecs. Search on the internet for 68k macs playing mp3.
>
> -Matt
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>