[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-20 13:23:46 +0000, MG said:

> On 19-jan-2013 16:20, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> There is a DSSI (disposable soft synth interface) audio API around,
>> though that's completely unrelated to the DEC DSSI gear.
> 
> Interesting, who ever developed and used/took advantage of it, or
> was it more of a community 'hack'?  If not the latter, it must've
> predated S/PDIF TOSLINK/"lightpipe" by quite a bit then.

Eh?  This particular DSSI is a Linux (and reportedly portable) audio 
application plug-in programming interface.  Not hardware.

If you're interested, there's a DSSI overview 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSSI>, and far more details 
<http://dssi.sourceforge.net> are available.

OpenVMS used Multimedia Services MMOV 
<http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/mmov/> in this general 
role.  MMOV is a dozen years old, and the related hardware and software 
support within that package is not being actively updated.

Core Audio <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Audio> and OpenAL 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAL> are the rough equivalent on OS X.

What Linux folks are using these days is probably listed in the 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_audio_software> page.



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