Re: [AG-TECH] onboard audio

["Jeremy Mann" <jeremymann@xxxxxxxxx>]

And this is precisely why I have a whole box of SoundBlaster PCI128
soundcards pulled from older Dell Optiplex workstations. This card has
always worked perfectly in all of our AG nodes.

On 4/11/07, Joseph Stone <stone004@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> In what appears to be a clever marketing trick, system and soundcard
> manufacturers have used the moniker "HD" and attached the words High
> Definition to the letters.
>
> It really stands for Half Duplex.  Since rat expects a chip set that can
> simultaneously send out signals while receiving them, these new devices do
> not get recognized. The HD devices appear to do some sort of fast switching
> so that the user hears and speaks apparently at the same time.
>
> I'll leave it to UCL folks to correct/add to what I've just said.
>
> Joe
>
>
> Joseph Stone
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