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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:08:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris David <cdavid@umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: Hi - need some help? 
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:

> >my dream for years has been to have an operating system (yes an entire
> >operating system) designed specifically for music applications. The
> 
> I suggest you look into BeOS. Unlike Linux, it was designed with "real
> time", "multi-media" in mind right from the start.
> 
> >first step though is to get a good code base in the public domain of
> >the layers that sit on top of the OS - to this end Linux is the best
> >development system I can think of.
> 

I agree that BeOS is a good OS for pro audio.  I also think that people
could mention something about that when trying to get specs for sound
hardware from the manufacturer.  The idea being if they release
documentation (assuming they wrote it in the first place,) it will enable
us and BeOS developers to write drivers for their hardware. However, there
still may not be enough interest from both Linux and BeOS to make them
willing to do so.

I may add something about that in the call.html document.

-Chris


