Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-sally!ut-emx!jcc From: jcc@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Chris Cooley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: soundmaste vs. Apple Sndmanager Message-ID: <3949@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 7 Jul 88 12:42:26 GMT References: <3775@saturn.ucsc.edu> <603@kinetics.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 30 In article <603@kinetics.UUCP>, buzz@kinetics.UUCP (Mahboud Zabetian) writes: > > Why did Apple decide to go with Synchronous sounds instead of Asynchronous > sounds? > > I like way that SoundMaster beeps do not stop the progress of the application, > nor do they queue up (beeps start before the previos one finishes, preventing > unbearable delays). [I'm not religious, but:] AMEN! This is the first thing I noticed after installing Sys Rel 6.0 on the SE. Gone (for now...?) are the days of making my voice "beeps" "rap." >sniff!< > Anyone know if Apple plans to change this? As Roger Rabbit might say, "PPPPlease, Apple?!?" > -Mahboud > --- > Mahboud Zabetian > Kinetics, Inc. > 2500 Camino Diablo Blvd., Walnut Creek, CA 94596 --chris -- J. Chris Cooley | husc6! -\ Computation. Center (COM 1) | im4u! -->-ut-sally!ut-emx!jcc Univ. of Texas at Austin | uunet! -/ Austin, TX 78712 |