On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> ... that's a bad idea, and everyone knows it except Microsoft.  There's NO
> advantage, and it wastes space on your scsi/ide bus. _Maybe_ I can see it a
> good idea if you had some extreme desire to use a equilizer on your CD audio
> output, but even then.

Apple's been doing it too. I have plenty of space on my SCSI/IDE bus
(come on, 172Kbytes/s isn't a huge amount of bandwidth). And the
advantage is that the inside of your computer's an electrically noisy
place--with USB speakers, you can keep the signal digital until you get
to the speakers.
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