Re: which pci sound card does not have dropouts under load

Brian Gerst (bgerst@quark.vpplus.com)
Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:29:52 -0500

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > What about CD audio or MIDI? Do you have to rip the CD in realtime to
> > play it? [Of course you could just rip it anyways and convert to mp3].
>
> You rip it ahead of real time and queue it in memory, the controller clocks it
> out for you. And yes its done ripping - Digital all the way

And so they've just invented another 'Win' device. Offload as much to
the CPU as you can... *sigh*

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						Brian Gerst


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