Re: talk.abortion

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Mitchell Spector wrote:
> 
> In article shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) writes...
> 
> >:Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
> >:     What kind of Nubus and PCI cards do you have to plug in? And
> >: sure you can plug in any IBM PCI card on the market, but it must
> >: have a software driver to support it and generally it's a good
> >: idea to have programs that use it too. The analogy made between
> >: the IIgs with SCSI and Mac with PCI posted recently was a good
> >: one (you can plug any SCSI device into a GS with SCSI card, but
> >: many are not supported with drivers).
> >
> >I have three video cards on hand (handy for the multiple monitor setup
> >which is really slick) plus an A/V digitizer card. I am talking to a guy
> >with a PAS16 sound card for sale, which does 16 bit audio I/O, MIDI, and
> >some other stuff. There are cards for running Windows, cards to give
> >extra serial ports, and plenty more. I only talk nubus since I don't
> >have a Pmac.
> 
>     The Pro AudioSpectrum 16 is a good example for what I was talking
> about above. One of its features is an OPL3 FM-synthesis chip, do you
> know any Macintosh games or programs that support it? There is also a
> joystick port on that (doubles for MIDI with a special adapter), are
> there any programs that make use of it either?

Hmm...any programs that use the standard MIDI tools will support it,
if my experience with the Umax serves me correctly.  It will also
show up under Win 95 in Virtual PC or Real PC, and as fast as a real
Pentium too.  Don't trash it until you try it.  Randy is making
blanket statements about the PC, but I think you are making them
about the PowerPC too.

However, I do agree that PC's are generally more expandable and
MacOS has some drawbacks.  Just remember that the processor is
OS independent.  Once Rhapsody comes out, it will pre-emtive MT
just fine.

Superior hardware is generally better than superior software
because you can always write new software for the hardware.

-Scott G.