On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 8:59 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 02:55:17PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> I???ve been doing some swiki-cleaning and stumbled upon
>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/263
>> wherein Lex Spoon had written some code to drive the /dev/dsp sound device doohickey on unix. Since it claimed to be able to support low-latency sound playing, this may be useful to those of you interested in making noises.
>>
>> It???s old, possibly wrong, but it???s there awaiting attention from someone with a bit of appropriate knowledge.
>>
>
> Nice find. A lot of what Lex did is worth a second look :-)
>
> Quite a bit has changed in the intervening years with respect to sound on
> Squeak and Linux. For example, there is no longer such a thing as /dev/dsp
> on my Ubuntu box, or on my Raspberry Pi. I think that device was associated
> with an older sound system (OSS).

Interesting backronym
;)

cheers -ben