Re: [ANNOUNCE] New PC-Speaker driver

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@arcor.de)
Date: Sun Aug 18 2002 - 03:49:58 EST

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On Thursday 15 August 2002 16:34, Helge Hafting wrote:
> The senseless cpu usage for something as simple as sound
> is worse.

Sound is simple? Okaaaay....

I first coded this technique up on a 20 MHz 386, running with a 20 KHz
interrupt. My current machine is more than 1,000 times faster.

If you can spare the 3-5% cpu anyway, who cares? And finally, nobody is
forcing anybody to configure this driver.

-- 
Daniel
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