Correct. There were several generations of audio (and later
multimedia) drivers in both BU Inferno and Research Inferno. e.g. the
Windows driver supports any installed codec.

There was also the Inferno Audio File format which was rather fb like.
The file began with text lines describing the stuff and then after a
\n\n the rest was data. (The drivers didn't know the format, the
player and other tools did.)

An unofficial history of Inferno would be amusing. Maybe it'll be
penned up in a bar at a future IWP9. ericvh was lucky enough to have
been in the /dev/caveman meeting. The "third party fools" era was
entertaining too, though very sad.

brucee

On 5/31/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The devaudio Anthony remembers was in the Brazil kernel maintained by
> the Mesa group and appears to have come from some Inferno BU kernel.
> It supported exactly PCM, μ-law and a-law.

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