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- From: Peter_Missel@k.maus.de (Peter Missel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Closed Architectures Consi
- Message-ID: <A44239@K.maus.de>
- Date: 9 Dec 92 18:53:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: K.A44239
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- B>That's right... and PC programs assume internal speaker, unless
- B>they auto-detect a SoundBlaster, AdLib, Sound Source, etc, etc,
- B>and automatically adjust to your particular machine..
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- ...and unless you have a brand-new, incompatible "extended feature" card, which
- will NOT be auto-detected and will NOT work...
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- The difference is: Atari's system expansions in FALCON series have OS support.
- The programmer doesn't have to "auto-guess" about the configuration, all he has
- to do is use the operating system.
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