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Letter: Letter

Published 14 June 1997

From Paul Crawford, University of Dundee

The claim that “all-purpose” digital signal processing (DSP) radio will prevent obsolescence is commendable, but as I write this I consider one of our old 286 PCs and wonder how to read a Microsoft Word 7 document on it. What happens if someone adopts, say, an error correction system that demands more performance than the existing DSP system allows for?

Digital radio is coming, but I doubt if it matches the approach in your article.

Dundee

Issue no. 2086 published 14 June 1997

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