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Skriven 2008-09-28 16:01:58 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
     Kommentar till en text av James Bradley
Ärende: smoke gets in your eyes
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Hey James!

> The "modern" studio, as well as any home-based ones worth their
> muster lose the analog designation *before* the signal is store-able.

Maybe.  Depends on whether or not an AD filter is being applied during the
capture stage.  A passthru should reproduce whatever the input is with the only
filtering being what the hardware is capable of reproducing. Using mathematical
definitions then the output for analog is contiuous while for digital it is
disrete.

digital:  . . . . . . . . .
analog:   _________________

Does that help?

> Magnetic tape; maybe to helically stripe data onto it.

See above.  An anolog signal is easily reproducable on magnetic tape.

> CD... What's analog about that?

I might be wrong about that.  Offhand I thought CD music is in a fancy wave
file which seems to ne to be analog (ie a continuous stream). The fact that a
CD spins in a continuous manner makes it an analog piece of hardware no matter
what type of file is etched onto the CD.

> What came first, ASCII or machine code?

For me?  Both started at the same time, except that ASCII was better used in my
particular case.  After that I left to machine code up to the c compiler and
concentrated on the ASCII file(s) source code syntax etc. I am uncertain when
ASCII became the defacto standard as far as it relates to machines.  Machine
code differs depending on the architecture while ASCII is ASCII no matter what.
 The only difference in ASCII as far as machines are concerned is the bit
ordering on the machine but the actual codes should be the same for big and
little endian systems.  Thus sending an ASCII code to an attached modem to act
upon ought to have the desired result, such as in the case of AT commands,
which are ASCII.  No?

> You talk in circles, Kimosabe. <G>

No doubt.  I am analog.  :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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