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  2. Windows Sound System - Wikipedia

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    Windows Sound System (WSS) was a sound card specification developed by Microsoft, released at the end of 1992 for Windows 3.1. It was sold as a bundle which included an ISA sound card, a microphone , a pair of headphones and a software package.

  3. Windows legacy audio components - Wikipedia

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    When the sound card uses a custom driver for use with the system supplied port class driver PortCls.sys or implements a mini-driver for use with the streaming class driver, applications can bypass the KMixer completely and use the kernel streaming interfaces instead to directly interact with audio driver and reduce latency. Windows 98 includes ...

  4. Digital Sound System 80 - Wikipedia

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    The Digital Sound System 80, short DSS80, was a three-piece PC audio system co-developed by Microsoft and Philips.It debuted on the 1998 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E³) and is most likely the only speaker system ever released by the Microsoft Corporation.

  5. DirectSound - Wikipedia

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    DirectSound is a deprecated software component of the Microsoft DirectX library for the Windows operating system, superseded by XAudio2.It provides a low-latency interface to sound card drivers written for Windows 95 through Windows XP and can handle the mixing and recording of multiple audio streams.

  6. Universal Audio Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Poorly written audio drivers have been a common source of system instability in Windows, especially with games that make use of extended audio card capabilities. These concerns prompted Microsoft to disable the audio stack entirely by default in Windows Server 2003.

  7. Device driver - Wikipedia

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    Makedev includes a list of the devices in Linux, including ttyS (terminal), lp (parallel port), hd (disk), loop, and sound (these include mixer, sequencer, dsp, and audio). [4] Microsoft Windows.sys files and Linux.ko files can contain loadable device drivers. The advantage of loadable device drivers is that they can be loaded only when ...

  8. List of Microsoft Windows components - Wikipedia

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    Sound Recorder: Simple audio recording app that can record from a microphone or headset, and save the results in WAVE format and Windows Media Audio format in some Windows versions Windows 3.0 Multimedia Extensions Skype: Messaging and calling service Windows 8.1, downloadable for previous versions Sticky Notes: Tool for jotting notes on the ...

  9. Windows Driver Model - Wikipedia

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    In computing, the Windows Driver Model (WDM) – also known at one point as the Win32 Driver Model – is a framework for device drivers that was introduced with Windows 98 and Windows 2000 to replace VxD, which was used on older versions of Windows such as Windows 95 and Windows 3.1, as well as the Windows NT Driver Model.