Audio and Music Development Platform Requirements
| Requirement | Platform | SGI | Other UNIX | Power PC | Pentium Pro | DSP |
| Performance | High Multiply/Add rate | |||||
| Productivity | Tools (e.g. Matlab) |
| . | |||
| Good HLL Code Generation | 96 | 96 | . | |||
| Standard DSP library | . | . | . | |||
| Large (>1Mbyte) Memory | . | |||||
| Protected Address Space | 96 | 96 | . | |||
| Music and Interactive Multimedia | Real-time Threads | 96 | 96 | . | ||
| Low Latency I/O (<10mS) | . | . | . | |||
| Audio | Reliable Audio I/O | . | . | . | ||
| On board 16-bit Audio | . | 96 | ||||
| On board 4 channel Audio | . | . | . | . | ||
| On board Digital I/O | . | . | . |
| Year | Clocks /Multiply/Add | RISC Clock Rate (MHz) | DSP Clock Rate (MHz) |
| 1995 | 2 | 150 | 80 |
| 1996 | 1 | 250 | 120 |