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- From: rick@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Richard Warner)
- Subject: Re: What's holding up PKZIP v. 2.0 (message from PKWARE)
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 15:22:35 GMT
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- bleys@infopls.chi.il.us (Bleys Ahrens) writes:
-
- >It is my understanding that Windows 3.1 had been intended to ship with
- >the speak.drv driver for the PC speaker. It was discovered that the
- >driver had problems on about 10% of the PCs tested. The product shipped
- >on schedule, but without the driver. Kudos to Microsoft for deciding
- >that 10% is way too high. The same goes to PKWare for waiting until the
- >problem is resolved.
-
- In light of the recent announcement that MS has developed a sound board, soon
- to go on sale, and now being licensed to PC vendors, I wonder if the release
- decision on the SPEAK driver might have had more to do with MS's pending
- sales of sound boards and less to do with the rumored problems with some
- PC's. Just a thought.
-
- >Bleys Ahrens
-
-
- >--
- >bleys@infopls.chi.il.us (Bleys Ahrens)
- >Infoplus BBS, +1 708 537 0247, v32bis. Home of Infoplus.
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