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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster/Adlib Compatibility
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.201942.13120@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 91 20:19:42 GMT
References: <GNAT.91Apr4094459@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
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From article <GNAT.91Apr4094459@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz>, by gnat@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington):
> Can anyone tell me to what degree the Adlib Card and the SoundBlaster Cards
> are compatible?

Sound Blaster is 100% HARDWARE compatible with Adlib.  You might ask
won't there be some legal trouble?  NO!  Because Adlib does not own
the "Adlib" technology, Yamaha does.  Both Adlib and Sound Blaster 
licensed the technology from Yamaha, or as far as I know.