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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=
    (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, multimedia@rah.star-gate.com
Subject: Re:  Ehm. Uh, just what *is* the state of the sound driver in
    2.2 and 2.1?
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<<On Wed, 20 Dec 1995 23:20:45 +0300 (MSK), =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> said:

> I suggest to change it to:

> * Keep the Voxware interface and support for all parts of the sound
> sustem.

> It is many sound software developed for Linux now, it will run
> on FreeBSD without modifications in this case.

> And add this one:

> * Have 100% compatible Sun /dev/audio (current variant is < 100%
> compatible).

You don't seem to understand: /both/ interfaces are equally broken for
any sort of real-time audio (as opposed to making silly noises out a
speaker).  That's why there is this thing called the ``BSD Audio
Driver'' to begin with.

-GAWollman

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