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From: rfarris@serene.UUCP (Rick Farris)
Newsgroups: comp.music,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 8-bit stereo sound for PC's
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Date: 10 Dec 89 21:25:50 GMT
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In article <6096@wpi.wpi.edu> ear@wpi.wpi.edu (Eric A Rasmussen) writes:

> As a sort of informal market survey, I would like to ask the owners
> of IBM PC's or clones (NOT PS/2's) if they would consider purchasing
> a sound card for their machine capable of playing 8-bit stereo

> So, please let me know what you think. 


The success of the Macintosh/Amiga sound systems is based on the fact
that *every* Mac/Amiga has a sound board.  Therefore software
manufacturers can confidently market a sound product that they *know*
has a wide base of potential sales.  

Indeed, sound can even be used as an adjunct for other programs
(games, etc) on the Mac/Amiga.

I think that a 3rd-party add-on sound board for a PC would be sold to
a *very* limited marketplace, and that there would not be many (if
any) developers willing to develop for it.

Sorry, but them's the facts of life in the marketing world.

I think your odds of success would be much greater if you were to,
for instance, invent some wonderful new musical program that everyone
had to have, and that included one of your sound boards....


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