"Don Yuniskis" <auryn@GCI-Net.com> writes:

> Greetings!
>     I'm just starting work on an audio-oriented application.
> I (naively) had planned on using an SS2.  Then, noticed
> it's not set up for simple "audio in/out" connections, etc.
>     A bit more research and now I am *totally* confused...
> It appears some SPARCs need external hardware to get
> "real" audio; others are limited to telephone quality CODEC's,
> and still other hardware appear not to be supported under
> NetBSD, etc.
>     If my goal is "16 bit (linear) audio", what boxes should I
> be looking at?  For now, I can live with just audio *out* -- but
> will eventually need audio *in* as well.

You're looking at a SPARCstation 4 (with audio riser added) or SPARCstation 5
(audio built in).  The ss4 and ss5 both use a cs4231 CODEC (16 bit) which
is much more flexible than the AMD7990 on some machines and supported
unlike the DBRI (ISDN) audio found on the ss10/ss20.

--Jason L. Wright