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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Chris David wrote:

> ALSA was mentioned in the February issue of Linux Journal, in an article
> about CSound :)

It's nice to read (except my mispelled name :-))).

> Here is the excerpt from the Article (Linux Journal, February 1999 issue
> 58, p.41 "Csound for Linux" by David Phillips)
> 
> ...
> While certainly sufficient for casual use, many sonic notions such as
> full-duplex and muliplexed real-time audio I/O are not realizable by the
> OSS/Free driver.  However, the ALSA driver does indeed support those uses;
> thanks to code from Fred Floberg, Linux CSound now explicitly supports
> the ALSA interface.  (The ALSA project, led by Jaroslav Kycela, is
> forming a new extended sound system API compatible with OSS/Free, but
> permitting much more advanced uses for sound card features not supported
> by OSS/Free.)...
> 
> Keep up the good work!
> 
> -Chris

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