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aperrien on Feb 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The web sucks if you have a slow connection

I think somewhere in that timeframe, standard soundcards adopted support for hardware playback of mp3 files.

i336_ on Feb 10, 2017 | [–]

That would be interesting to hear more about.

AFAIK all sound drivers in Windows accepted standard PCM data.

_joel on Feb 10, 2017 | | [–]

I'm not sure about that, but 'mmx' did come to fruition with early pentiums.

bigger_cheese on Feb 9, 2017 | [–]

I had a Soundblaster 16 in the 486

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