1993-08-30 - Re: Apple planning to use Clipper chip?

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From: scott@Cadence.COM (Scott Gustafson)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1993-08-30 21:56:24 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 14:56:24 PDT

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From: scott@Cadence.COM (Scott Gustafson)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 14:56:24 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Apple planning to use Clipper chip?
Message-ID: <9308302148.AA12099@racecar>
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At 12:45 PM 8/30/93 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
>My speculation would be that the Clipper/Skipjack/Capstone deal, if it
>is happening at all, is some time off. Perhaps for a phone version of
>the av Macs (there had been speculation that Apple was planning to use
>the on-board DSP hardware for a modem tool, similar to what NeXT has
>done with its hardware).

The Centris 660av and Quadra 840av are both equiped with the Phone software
to allow them to do modem emulation, phone calls (speaker phone), and faxes in
software only.

If you want more info on this, send me an email and we'll keep it off this list.

scott
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