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From: iansmith@kong.gatech.edu (Ian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Sound
Keywords: sound X NeXT
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Date: 22 Mar 90 00:27:20 GMT
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In article <404@toaster.SFSU.EDU> stan@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Stan Osborne) writes:
>              o Sound Support not provided in other NeXTStep environments
>
>                Many of  the  NeXTStep  based  applications  demonstrated
>                today  will  not  run  on the base configurations for the
>                newly announced IBM workstations.  The base  IBM  systems
>                do not have support for sound.

I'm afraid that I don't understand this point.  
Sound on workstations is a long way from being standardized.  Until there is
such a standard we will all have to just use sound programs specific to our
architechture. I will speculate, however, that if someone produces a sound
server that will run under X, and its good enough, it will become the defacto
standard. Sun may be attempting to do this with is /dev/audio implementation on
the Sparcstation, but its a long way from doing the whole job. Rumours are that
several others are attempting to the same...  If they do, and you run XNeXT
(or a similar product for the new IBMs) all these problems are solved.

				Ian Smith     
			   iansmith@warhol.gatech.edu 
	Multimedia Lab of the Software Engineering Research Center