[OSC_dev] OSC bandwidth

[Adrian Freed]

>Thanks all for your great comments - that micro controllers are slower
>than a PC was what I was after, during my initial research (I was
>looking for a paper just like your's Angelo, thanks - and I did check
>the opensoundcontrol.org website Andy mentioned so might be worth
>putting it there if you want some more citations) I read that micro
>controllers could only send at 500hz and I'd just assumed that a micro
>controller would be much faster than a computer for this type of stuff

I worry your concern about speed is detracting you from the real advantage of microcontrollers over desktop processors for OSC and that is they run simpler, real-time operating systems that can perform the data acquisition and OSC time stamping more accurately than desktop operating systems. Our ICMC2008 paper explains this.