[geeks] RANT

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:40:42AM -0500, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> <RANT>
> I understand them doing this in Solaris 2.5.1, but they've had long enough
> to have decent built-in audio support on Solaris IA32.  Why the F*** do I
> have to buy OSS?  I actually bought OSS back in the 2.5.1 days but I'm
> sure that license doesn't work anymore and who knows where it is if I even
> backed it up...eesh.  All systems should support sound no questions asked.
> </RANT>

Thats one of the reasons that Sun got out of the x86 business, they got tired
of having to support every oddball combination under the sun. (er, bad pun)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX