MIDI Timing and PC soundcards

Eli Brandt eli at gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Tue Oct 13 23:26:43 CEST 1998


List, Christopher wrote:
> The point that I think most people have missed is that
> Windows ***doesn't want*** you to have low level control of the machine
> - for security and stability reasons.

That was the theory.  Now they notice their "real-time" scheduling
would be hard to fix, so the Microsoft-approved way of doing all this
stuff is to _put your code in the kernel_.  For NT too.  

Welcome to the future, eh.

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