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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: IEEE: C is the first programming language
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Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> writes:

> One product I know of is the Toshiba IK-6410A camera.  I don't know
> which chip it uses, but it does use a 10 bit DSP.

So, your example with which you're engineer friends are intimately
familiar is the same one you get as the top google hit for "10-bit DSP".

Incidentally "10-bit DSP technology" doesn't mean a processor with a
10-bit char. There are plenty of camera devices driven by 10-bit-DACs,
and with a hardware processing pipeline that holds 10-bits of accuracy,
but these aren't running C programs with 10-bit-chars.