Re: Nice
Because in those days Avid required the use of special I/O cards that did all the grunt work? I'm only guessing here, but that was certainly the case with the early audio editors I worked with in the 1990s. Most of the heavy lifting was shuffled off to specialised silicon optimised for the task. Some systems even had HDDs connected directly to these cards, rather than relying on the ISA (later PCI) bus for transfers.
Remember that one of the early affordable video editors was based around Amiga hardware - the Video Toaster made use of some of the special facilities built-in to those computers, but added a lot of additional hardware to make it all work.
M.
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