On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:03:03 -0700, Joshua Haberman wrote: > Let me take a step back and ask a question that has plagued me for a while: > what *is* the Unix way to solve new problems in new domains?
FWIW I think Paul was overstating the case. Its true that open/read/write is not viable for low latency audio in 2002: we're working our asses off just trying to meet deadlines, without any overhead from other stuff. In 1982 it would have seemed ridiculous to cat tar streams over ssh to get them to other machines (or tunnel X over ssh for that matter), but we do it all the time now - we have lots of spare cycles, so why not use them for a bit of added convience and security? I think that audio will go the same way - unless the hardware manufacturers have us all using 64bit/2MHz PCM by 2022 ;) - Steve
