From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 30 07:30:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA10383 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 07:30:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA10348 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 07:30:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chuck@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA00740; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 10:29:57 -0500 Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 10:29:57 -0500 From: Charles Green Message-Id: <199603301529.KAA00740@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: Sujal Patel "Re: UNIX Sound SystemTM (USS) Lite (Formerly VoxWare)" (Mar 29, 23:57) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Sujal Patel Subject: Re: UNIX Sound SystemTM (USS) Lite (Formerly VoxWare) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sujal Patel stands accused of saying: } Date: Mar 29, 23:57 } Subject: Re: UNIX Sound SystemTM (USS) Lite (Formerly VoxWare) } On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: } } > > USS Lite is a freeware version of the full UNIX Sound System. In short it's } > > exactly the same than current TASD 3.5 which is available for Linux, FreeBSD } > > and BSD/OS 2.1. The only difference between TASD and USS Lite will be a minor } > } > In other words, this driver will NEVER be incorporated into FreeBSD. } } We should probably just go with TASD 3.5 which is under a BSDish } copyright and then develop sound ourselves from here on. At least there } is one bright side to this, we can finally clean up some of the sources so } we don't have #ifdef LINUX #ifdef SYSV #ifdef SCO #BSDI, and the assorted } horrible mess... } } } Sujal } }-- End of excerpt from Sujal Patel Perhaps we can treat the sound system as a port? -- Charles Green, PRC Inc. UN*X System Administration 22 Powell Ave. Apt. B UN*X Security & Whitesboro, NY 13492 Programming