Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:58:25 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: shields@msrl.com (Michael Shields) Cc: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson), wes@softweyr.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: USB drivers Message-ID: <4.1.19990131105502.038c3a80@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <8790ejy1bi.fsf@mulligatwani.msrl.com> References: <Drew Baxter's message of "Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:58:42 -0500"> <4.1.19990130165432.03d5deb0@genesis.ispace.com>
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At 09:17 AM 1/31/99 , Michael Shields wrote: >In article <4.1.19990130165432.03d5deb0@genesis.ispace.com>, >Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> wrote: >> What's sick is Microsofts new Speaker system, it supports 'digital audio' >> via USB. > >This is actually a good idea, since it moves the D/A converter outside >the noisy PC case. > I don't have any major quibbles with my AWE32 (2mb) sitting inside my computer case. As it goes my Boston Acoustics speakers are a tad overpowering (can shake the floor up above me pretty well :)). But all is fair in music and video games. >> Thing is, not Win95 Compatible, let alone anything else. >> Requires Win98, otherwise it's analog via standard input. > >Well, that part is not a good idea. Well course not :) other problem is I don't see Microsoft willingly giving any parts of the driver source either, so that FreeBSD, etc. can design drivers to support the thing.. Talk about monopoly power though, "Check out our new product that noone else has yet" then "You need Win98 to run it".. Win98 was *EXTREMELY* memory-hole intensive on this thing. 3 or 4 hours down the road and it'd slow down to around 486-66 speed and I'd have to reboot. No thank you. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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