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From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Driver for 386BSD
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 11:27:32 GMT
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In article <1992Oct13.020214.7458@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
>Josh Osborne (stripes@pix.com) wrote:
[...]
>And Mediavision of Pro Audio Spectrum will let other OEM manufactures similar
>cards and let people know about its interfaces.

While I think the people at Creatave Labs do some scummy things, they *DO*
make most of the interface to their cards public (only stereo recording
has been omitted from their docs, and I think it may have just been omitted
from the hardware...).

>	Anyone want to develop a SCSI driver for it as well so that we can
>use its fast CDROM as well. I wonder what sort of SCSI chip does it use?

Zilog Z5380.  Anyone have docs on the chip?
-- 
           stripes@pix.com              "Security for Unix is like
      Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The          Multitasking for MS-DOS"
      "The dyslexic porgramer"                  - Kevin Lockwood
We all agree on the necessity of compromise.  We just can't agree on
when it's necessary to compromise.       - Larry Wall