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audio systems are software based. A real sound card still has its own co-processor. All the things you mention are available in a hardware format except USB. USB is software bound, which is one reason FireWire blows its doors off even with a lower max theoretical speed (compairing FireWire 400 to USB 2.0 (480Mbps))
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The size of software is following  bjbrock | 05/25/07
Curious, what has this to do  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/25/07
It's why software is not  bjbrock | 05/25/07
Well, obviously the "power"  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/25/07
The second paragraph  bjbrock | 05/25/07
That would be Parkinson's Law  John L. Ries | 05/25/07
Bingo  Jack-Booted EULA | 05/28/07
Interesting... Fear of patents stiffling software performance innovation?  Basic Logic | 05/26/07
perhaps  CobraA1 | 05/27/07
You're not a programmer, are you? happy  wolf_z | 05/26/07
There is some truth to this  John L. Ries | 05/26/07
Not that easy to do really.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/25/07
It Comes down  Stuka | 05/25/07
You write to what's available  John Zern | 05/25/07
Hypocrisy from Intel  Robert.Novak@... | 05/25/07
Only cheap  Stuka | 05/25/07
Windows and Linux run on the same Intel (or AMD) hardware.  HypnoToad72 | 05/25/07
I think  Suicida| | 05/25/07
This is where Linux outshines Windows.  linux for me | 05/26/07
You're absolutely right HypnoToad72  GeiselS@... | 05/27/07
Contrasting hardware and software  kmatzen@... | 05/25/07
And this is news, or a law?! Sounds more like forgotten common sense.  HypnoToad72 | 05/25/07
Back in the days . . .  Ken_z | 05/26/07
Anyone Remember the AMIGA ?  GeiselS@... | 05/26/07
Yes, I remember how slow they were.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/26/07
You obviously didn't own one  GeiselS@... | 05/27/07
As usual  wgraue | 06/03/07
At least part of the problem is...  Henry Miller | 05/27/07
Why?  in-DUH-vidual | 05/27/07
No Moore's Law?  Grayson Peddie | 05/27/07
Don't know  in-DUH-vidual | 05/28/07
The thing about Moore's Law...  Wolfie2K3 | 05/29/07
Exotic tasks  in-DUH-vidual | 05/30/07
Microsoft Windows 2008  mighetto | 05/28/07
back in '90 i hada chance to write a PPprogram in Fortran for a connection  wessonjoe | 05/29/07
All is about optimization  PhilippeV | 06/01/07

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