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>From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
Subject: Re: Digital Better?
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In article <1992Jun18.210719.3611@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil  
Rickert) writes:
> In article <1992Jun18.191429.2447@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas  
Clarke) writes:
> >In article <1992Jun17.182829.18441@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu  
(Neil  
> >Rickert) writes:
> >> 
> >> 	anything analog can do,
> >> 	  digital can do better.
> >> 	digital can do anything
> >> 	  better than that.
> >
> >This is an unproven belief.
> 
>   Since it apparently was not obvious, let me make it clear that this was
> a deliberate oversimplification.
> 
I sensed that, but I'm not a good enought poet to reply in
kind.  I hoped that "dead horse" etc would be tip off.

I still would like to see a good quantum mechanical analysis
of what the A/D process does to a signal.  Maybe I'll have to
closet myself for a week, a month(?), a year(?), agghh!

--
Thomas Clarke
Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL
12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300, Orlando, FL 32826
(407)658-5030, FAX: (407)658-5059, clarke@acme.ucf.edu


