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From: spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: Music-Routines for MSW?
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Date: 6 Nov 90 13:59:07 GMT
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In article <825@tuura.UUCP> risto@tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen) writes:
>I'm currently writing a Windows device driver for the Roland MIDI card MPU-
>401 .  When I started, I called the Microsoft reps at Kista, Sweden, to ask
>whether there will be a 'standard' function-level interface for MIDI in near
>future.  They said there will not be one, at least by Microsoft.

This is not true. The Microsoft Multimedia Development Kit will
probably define an API for MIDI that will probably grow to be fairly
standard. Microsoft's Multimedia product is to be announced this month
in San Jose.

Joel Spolsky
Speaking for Nobody
spolsky@cs.yale.edu                                     Silence = Death