[Info-vax] OpenVMS and audio

[Rich Jordan]

On Jan 18, 11:08 am, MG <marcog... at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 8-1-2012 16:37, MG wrote:
>
> > [...]
>
> Here's an update.  In the meantime, I successfully installed two Compaq-
> branded Ensoniq AudioPCI cards into my DS10s.
>
> The version of MMOV on the HP web site wouldn't work, but someone was
> very kind to share a newer/newest version of MMOV (V2.2-1) with me,
> which does actually work! The version on HP's web site (V2.2, available
> here[*]) would give me an error under VMS V8.4, after invoking SYSMAN
> IO AUTOCONFIGURE, that the Ensoniq driver image wasn't linked properly
> (or not against a recent enough version of VMS, apparently). MMOV
> V2.2-1 works fine, on the other hand.
>
>         DEC AXPVMS MMOV V2.2-1 Full LP Install (U) 17-JAN-2012
>         DEC AXPVMS MMOV V2.2 Full LP Remove - 17-JAN-2012
>
>         [* <http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/mmov/>]
>
> It's very interesting to have a VMS system with audio capabilities, I
> must say! (Especially after using I64 for quite some time.) I wish HP
> would release MMOV for I64 and support more devices. (Not just for
> audio, though.)
>
>   - MG

Its been a while but I used to use my MMOV/Audio equipped PW600au to
play music while I worked and browsed.  Nice capability.  It helped
when I moved from an IDE to a SCSI CDROM drive.  Unfortunately I never
did much else with the sound capabilities.