On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Neil A. Carson wrote:

> Greetings,
[snip something about staroffice]
> ... Netscape---well, maybe, I'm still working on their
> sales department when I get a free minute (of which there aren't any at
> the moment).

I'd be surprised if netscape are interested, as they'll make little money
from it, unless it runs on Digital's NCs...

> A DMAd driver _is_ expected in the near future, but I've been saying
> this for the past year or so, so don't take it as Gospel. Basically, the
> driver is such that the first DMA works fine, and then it hangs waiting
> for a 'counter finished counting' interrupt, which never happens (or
> something like that, Scott can clarify). I believe one of the more
> recent developments is that Gary Partis (designed the card) and a dood
> at Cumana may be interested in writing drivers themselves, so the
> likelihood of things happening is now more probably than before AFAIK.

Great, only question is will they release the source code, or will ppl
need to use they're pre-compiled kernels?

> Perhaps someone else can clarify this stuff more. It'd be nice if some
> users started working on drivers, too, rather than just Mark and Scott.
> Any volunteers?

I'd like to, (I did try with the 16 bit sound) but I don't have the
technical info needed, and possibly not the experience to know how to
write one.

Cheers,
Chris