Janina Sajka, le lun. 01 avril 2019 05:29:06 -0400, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > Gregory Nowak, le ven. 29 mars 2019 17:02:07 -0700, a ecrit: > > > > people would either plug an > > > > external device or even put an ISA card in their computer, which gives > > > > them an additional serial port. > > > > > > The ISA cards also provided an internal speech synthesizer. > > > > Right, that's what I meant :) > > The "additional serial port" was meant from a programming point of view. > > Is the soft synth device similarly a serial device even today? No, it never has. The data is directly fed to userland. > I ask because I don't know, but also because the abstract should > probably note that most users today use software speech. Indeed. Samuel _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
