>heh. Imagine they _did_ port it.. we'd have to come up with a new word to repl >ace the "Linux" in ALSA... ;-)
ALSA has been (or was) adopted by QNX, though they started with 0.5.X, which was probably a mistake. >quite. especially since linux is capturing most of the unix market share (esp. > on the desktop). ALSA on MacOS X anyone? or dare i say Win**? no point doing it on Mac OS X. CoreAudio is a better API for application developers, and its also has a really nice HAL layer for device driver authors to conform to. writing a PCI device driver for CoreAudio looks like about 1 day's work (though to be fair, ALSA isn't much more). as i've said many times, i think its a mistake to write apps for ALSA unless they are generic audio engines. we need to be using APIs that represent the correct programming model and don't expose hardware-level details unless absolutely necessary. thats what CoreAudio is about (as well as several other similar APIs). --p
